Posted on July 23, 2008 by Sonia
CURRENT AFFAIRS, DOUBLEDAY, NEWS & REVIEWS, NONFICTIONThe Dark Side by Jane Mayer
- In “Answering Terror with Terror,” Salon.com states: The Dark Side is about how the war on terror became ‘a war on American ideals,’ and Mayer gives this story all the weight and sorrow it deserves. Many books get tagged with the word ‘essential’; hers actually is.”
- “Mayer’s singular accomplishment is to fuse the years of events that have brought us to this pass into a single compelling narrative and to use her own considerable reportorial powers to fill in important connective and contextual events.” — Los Angeles Times
- Readers can find similar praise at Bloomberg.com and The New York Observer
In the nation’s capital? Meet Jane Mayer at Politics and Prose on July 24 at 7pm. View a complete tour schedule, here.
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[…] on PBS, Bill Moyers interviewed investigative journalist Jane Mayer and mentioned that in Mayer’s new book, she notes that FBI agents refused to participate in the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects […]
I was triggered when reading “Mayer: Top DOJ Lawyers Spoke ‘In Codes’ For Fear Of Being Wiretapped By White House ‘Lunatics’” from Thinkprogress today. Frankly the “Lunatics” that you refer to are not local to only the White House and there is a huge reason for this too. It’s more like “Living under a Lunatic Microscope”
Marty Didier
Northbrook, IL
[…] on PBS, Bill Moyers interviewed investigative journalist Jane Mayer and mentioned that in Mayer’s new book, she notes that FBI agents refused to participate in the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects […]
[…] on PBS, Bill Moyers interviewed investigative journalist Jane Mayer and mentioned that in Mayer’s new book, she notes that FBI agents refused to participate in the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects […]
[…] on PBS, Bill Moyers interviewed investigative journalist Jane Mayer and mentioned that in Mayer’s new book, she notes that FBI agents refused to participate in the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects […]
[…] on PBS, Bill Moyers interviewed investigative journalist Jane Mayer and mentioned that in Mayer’s new book, she notes that FBI agents refused to participate in the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects […]
[…] by James O’Rourke on July 28, 2008 Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side, sat down with Bill Moyers on Friday to talk about the “atmosphere of intimidation” in […]
I learned so much about our Government and military secrets that they probably did not want anyone to know, all from your informative book. You are soluted for having the courage to write about actions taken by those in power that are inconsistent with our founding fathers who regarded humane treatment of British prisoners essential in time of war. George Washington would be turning over in his grave if he read your book!
What about demestic torture? I am a victim of civilian psychological torture!!!!!!!!!!
I just started reading this book and find it fascinating. But I also just found an error: It says on p. 86 that Patrick Philbin went to Harvard College and Yale Law School. That is wrong: I went to Yale College with him in the late 1980s and saw him at Harvard Law School when I was there as a grad student in the early 1990s. This should be corrected in a paperback edition.