Rent The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

Synopsis

National Book Award Finalist
With a New Afterword by the Author

A searing and vitally important chronicle of how the Bush Administration has sacrificed our country's core principles in the name of their war on terror.

Jane Mayer, bestselling author and acclaimed correspondent for The New Yorker, relates in gripping detail the impact of the Bush Administration's disastrous counterterrorism policies. Under their watch, U.S.-held prisoners, some of them completely innocent, have been subjected to treatment more reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition than the twenty-first century. Mayer shows how the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a longheld agenda to enhance presidential powers in an unprecedented manner, obliterating the Constitutional protections that define the American experiment.

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