For the past two decades, Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East. His perceptive, award-winning dispatches have not only explored the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power. In Stripping Bare the Body, Danner brings together his best reporting from the worlds most troubled regionsfrom the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti to the tumultuous rise of Aristide; from the onset of the Balkan Wars to the painful fragmentation of Yugoslavia; and finally to the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the radical, destructive legacy of the Bush administration. At a time when American imperial power is in decline, there has never been a more compelling moment to read these urgent, fiercely intelligent reports.
For the past two decades, Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East. His perceptive, award-winning dispatches have not only explored the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power. In Stripping Bare the Body, Danner brings together his best reporting from the worlds most troubled regionsfrom the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti to the tumultuous rise of Aristide; from the onset of the Balkan Wars to the painful fragmentation of Yugoslavia; and finally to the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the radical, destructive legacy of the Bush administration. At a time when American imperial power is in decline, there has never been a more compelling moment to read these urgent, fiercely intelligent reports.
Stripping Bare the Body : Politics, Violence, War
Mark Danner was for many years a staff writer at The New Yorker and contributes frequently to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. The author of The Massacre at El Mozote, Torture and Truth, and The Short Way to War, he is the recipient of a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco and New York City.
www.markdanner.com
from the Foreword by Louis Begley, author of Wartime Lies, About
Schmidt and Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
"The publication of Stripping Bare the Body is a timely act of
public service and a literary event, bringing together Mark
Danner's luminously intelligent and engaging narratives and stories
from the world's war zones...they are both a moral history of
America's engagement with the world over the last generation and an
account of a twenty-three years' journey through hell on earth by
an ideal observer: Danner is endowed with a passion for truth,
great physical courage, a muscular writing style, and a heart as
big as a barn."
Dave Eggers, author of Zeitoun and What Is the What
"There's probably no one alive who understands political conflict
and upheaval better than Mark Danner, and there is almost certainly
no one who writes more eloquently about it. Stripping Bare the Body
is an unmitigated masterpiece of reporting and analysis."
Michael Pollan, author, The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's
Dilemma and
In Defense of Food
"The publication of Mark Danner's Stripping Bear the Body is a big
deal -- an event. Why? Because Danner's writing over the past three
decades, taken together, forms a definitive, and absolutely
riveting, chronicle of the dark side of the post-cold-war world,
from Haiti to Abu Ghraib and beyond. No other writer we have
combines brilliant and courageous reporting with brilliant and
courageous political and moral thinking as Danner does. He is also,
first and last, a breathtakingly good writer. For anyone who cares
about the fate of our foreign policy and our republic and, indeed,
the human condition, Stripping Bare the Body is a touchstone book.
"
Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the
Chains
"Mark Danner has truly chronicled what Conrad, in Heart of
Darkness, called 'the dark places of the earth, ' some of which are
uncomfortably close to home. He has returned with tales to tell
that are vivid, eloquent, heartbreaking and show a steady moral
compass. This extraordinary book will long endure, and should be
bedside reading for President Obama."
Andrew J. Bacevich, author of
from the Foreword by Louis Begley, author of "Wartime Lies," "About
Schmidt" and "Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters"
"The publication of "Stripping Bare the Body" is a timely act of
public service and a literary event, bringing together Mark
Danner's luminously intelligent and engaging narratives and stories
from the world's war zones...they are both a moral history of
America's engagement with the world over the last generation and an
account of a twenty-three years' journey through hell on earth by
an ideal observer: Danner is endowed with a passion for truth,
great physical courage, a muscular writing style, and a heart as
big as a barn."
Dave Eggers, author of "Zeitoun" and" What Is the What"
"There's probably no one alive who understands political conflict
and upheaval better than Mark Danner, and there is almost certainly
no one who writes more eloquently about it. Stripping Bare the Body
is an unmitigated masterpiece of reporting and analysis."
Michael Pollan, author, "The Botany of Desire," "The Omnivore's
Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food"
"The publication of Mark Danner's "Stripping Bear the Body" is a
big deal -- an event. Why? Because Danner's writing over the past
three decades, taken together, forms a definitive, and absolutely
riveting, chronicle of the dark side of the post-cold-war world,
from Haiti to Abu Ghraib and beyond. No other writer we have
combines brilliant and courageous reporting with brilliant and
courageous political and moral thinking as Danner does. He is also,
first and last, a breathtakingly good writer. For anyone who cares
about the fate of our foreign policy and our republic and, indeed,
the human condition, "Stripping Bare the Body" is a touchstone
book. "
Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold's Ghost" and "Bury the
Chains"
"Mark Danner has truly chronicled what Conrad, in "Heart of
Darkness," called 'the dark places of the earth, ' some of which
are uncomfortably close to home. He has return
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