Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War

Drawing on rich narratives of politics, violence, and war from around the globe and written by one of the world's leading journalists, Stripping Bare the Body is a moral history of American power during the last quarter century. From Iraq, the Balkans, and Haiti, to America's "black sites" around the world, Danner reports on our "grim age, still infused with the remnant perfume of imperial dreams."

A former staff writer for the New Yorker, Mark Danner contributes frequently to the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. The recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, he teaches at Berkeley and Bard College.