Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror - Couverture rigide

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520254724 ISBN 13 : 9780520254725

Editeur : University of California Press, 2009

Synopsis

Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, "Kill me!" Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001--and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies, abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the present, providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the past seven years and where we are now headed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Jan Honigsberg is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He visited Guantánamo in May 2007. He is author of Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (UC Press), among other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520254724
• ISBN 13: 9780520254725
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible