Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War - Couverture rigide

Risen, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0544341414 ISBN 13 : 9780544341418

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

Synopsis

War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely.

Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency, and truth. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has done things every bit as shameful as its historic wartime abuses — and until this book, it has worked very hard to cover them up.

Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. FDR authorized the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans. Presidents Bush and Obama now must face their own reckoning. Power corrupts, but it is endless war that corrupts absolutely.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JAMES RISEN is an investigative journalist with the New York Times, and author of the New York Times bestseller State of War, among other books.  In 2006 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his stories about warrantless wiretapping by the NSA. In 2007 he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0544341414
• ISBN 13: 9780544341418
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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