Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMost Americans believe that a civilized state does not resort to torture, and yet, as W. Fitzhugh Brundage reveals in this essential and disturbing study, there is a long American tradition of excusing as ...

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