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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

Jane Mayer

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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world—decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. The Dark Side was a National Bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.

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Publisher
Doubleday
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9780307456502
Genre
Politics & Current Affairs
Topics
War on TerrorExecutive power and civil libertiesTorture and interrogation policy

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