Join award-winning writer Mark Danner as he discusses his groundbreaking new book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (Nation Books) with investigative journalist Amy Goodman, host and co-founder of Democracy Now!

 
Drawing on accounts of politics, violence, and war from around the world, Stripping Bare the Body is a moral history of American power during the last quarter century. Moving from bloody battlegrounds and dark prison cells to air-conditioned offices, the book recounts how the United States passed from the Cold War’s violent certainties through the ideological confusions of the post-Cold War world into the ongoing fanatical evangelism of the War on Terror and the Iraq War. The grim and compelling narrative tells the tale of the final years of the American Century and the wreckage it has left in its wake.

The discussion will be followed by a book signing.

Cosponsored by Nation Books, The Nation, Democracy Now!, The New York Review of Books, Haymarket Books, Democrats.com, the Public Concern Foundation and The New School.