Stripping Bare the Body

Politics Violence War

Published: October 13, 2009

“ The publication of Stripping Bare the Body is a timely act of public service and a literary event, bringing together Mark Danner’s luminously intelligent and engaging narratives and stories from the world's war zones - from the Foreword by Louis Begley

“ For anyone who cares about the fate of our foreign policy and our republic and, indeed, the human condition, Stripping Bare the Body is a touchstone book. ” - Michael Pollan

“ Stripping Bare the Body is an unmitigated masterpiece of reporting and analysis. ” - Dave Eggers

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The Secret Way To War The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History test	Torture and Truth America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
The Road to Illegitimacy One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Vote Re-Count	The Massacre at El Mozote A Parable of the Cold War

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Anthologies and Introductions

Best American Political Writing 2009 US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites The New York Review of Books 04/09/09	Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign On Segur's "Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign" 10/21/08	The Consequences to Come: American Power after Bush 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam' The New York Review of Books 11/08/07
The World According to TomDispatch: America and the Age of Empire Words in a Time of War Tomdispatch.com 05/31/07	What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth and Power What Orwell Didn't Know (Book) 11/07/07	The Best American Essays 2007 Iraq: The War of the Imagination The New York Review of Books 12/21/06
The Best American Political Writing 2006 Taking Stock of the Forever War The New York Times Magazine 09/11/05	Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture Torture and Truth The New York Review of Books 06/10/04	Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters You Can Do Anything with a Bayonet Except Sit on It Tomdispatch.com 02/26/06
Kosovo: Contending Voices on Baltic Intervention Endgame in Kosovo The New York Review of Books 05/06/99	Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology The Massacre At El Mozote and US Policy in Central America 05/10/94	El Salvador: Photographs by Larry Towell Staying on in El Salvador (Introduction) El Salvador: Photographs by Larry Towell 06/05/97
President Reagan and the World Iran-Contra in the Light of History (discussant) President Reagan and the World (book) 1997	Torture: Power, Democracy, and the Human Body Now That We've Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence Torture: Power, Democracy, and the Human Body (book) 2011