Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition by Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition by Brundage, W. Fitzhugh

Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

Pulitzer Prize FinalistSilver Gavel Award Finalist "A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied...
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Author: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
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Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition by Brundage, W. Fitzhugh

Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

$50.15
Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition by Brundage, W. Fitzhugh

Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

$50.15
Author: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Silver Gavel Award Finalist

"A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded."
--Los Angeles Times

"That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it."
--Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell

"Remarkable...A searing analysis of America's past that helps make sense of its bewildering present."
--David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution

Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not torture, but that belief has repeatedly been challenged in moments of crisis at home and abroad. From the Indian wars to Vietnam, from police interrogation to the War on Terror, US institutions have proven far more amenable to torture than the nation's commitment to liberty would suggest.

Civilizing Torture traces the history of debates about the efficacy of torture and reveals a recurring struggle to decide what limits to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving and an erosion of limits on military power, the debate over torture remains critical and unresolved.

Author: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 03/10/2020
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780674244702

About the Author
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh: - W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his present work on torture in American history. Brundage has written extensively on racial inequality and violence, from segregation to lynching.

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