Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520254725)

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 Guant疣amo 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.

Author: Peter Jan Honigsberg
ISBN-10: 0520254724
ISBN-13: 9780520254725
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2009
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 05/15/2009 pg. 21
Choice 11/01/2009
Publisher's Weekly Annex 07/13/2009