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I started reading The Dark Side: How the War on Terror turned into a War on American Ideals last night. I read Harry Potter should Have Died over the weekend and enjoyed it. I have 3 holds at the library for my trip to the beach next week: Foucault's Pendulum, Sophie's World, and Lords of F ... #5 Politics, History & Biographies 9/9 Category complete.
1. The Dark Side: the inside story of how the war on Terror turned into a War on American Ideals Jane Mayer DONE 1/12/2009
2.The Nine - Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin done 2/15/09
3. ... ... I haven't read enough of the nominated books to be able to make an informed decision, but in nonfiction I certainly think The Dark Side: The inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer (which I've read and admired greatly, although it was ... ... Filkins, The Forever War
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Doubleday
Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation
George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776 ... 4370 pages.
Best fiction read - a tie between Ella Minnow Pea and Olive Kitteridge
Best non-fiction : The Dark side: the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American Ideals
Here's the January list of reading accomplished:
1.Chocolate Chip Murder ... Hey Samjoseph,
Nice reviews! Can't really say what you might enjoy reading next, though after the Chomsky, Jane Mayer's The Dark Side might make sense. Mind you, it's on my TBR, so I haven't read it, but those I trust say it's compelling. ... d:
1. the Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder msg #17
2. Pawing through the Past msg #20
3. Olive Kitteridge msg #21
4. The Dark Side: The inside story of how the War on Terror turned into the war on American Ideals msg #25
5. Shakespeare: The World as Stage msg 26
6 The Bestseller! msg 2 ... 4. The Dark Side: How the War on Terror turned into a War on American Ideals. I can't rate this book....it's too soon to tell how I really feel about it because my political feelings are too mixed up with my reactions to the book. I also posted remarks Category #5 History/Politics.1/9 The Dark Side: How the War on Terror turned into the War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer.
This is a scary book. I served on active duty in the Navy myself, and my husband served over 30 years defending our constitution. I shook when I read this, and ... ... for the welcome. It has been a great group. I will have difficulty keeping up.
My thoughts:
I think the author of The Dark Side, by Jane Mayer, did an excellent bit of research. The subject, of interrogation, is certainly a current one. I see in a recent newspaper article that Cheney ... I had picked up The Lincoln Lawyer but have not read it yet. Meanwhile I have read one non-fiction:
2. The Dark Side ... by Jane Mayer
The story of how Dick Cheney and his adviser, David Addington, controlled the interrogation policies of the country, that resulted in murder and such ... ... since then I've been gradually amassing a small collection of books to seek out - including Taliban - Ahmed Rashid and The Dark Side - Jane Mayer.
I do hope to read something other than books about Afghanistan this year, but I will be very happy to augment this list if there are any ... #44, tututhefirst, The Dark Side was one of my favorite books of last year, but utterly and completely chilling, as well as horrifying. Left from last year's TBR list: The Dark Side:The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer. I'm sorta glad I didn't get to it 'til now. Since this group in DC is on the way out, I may not end up as scared as I am now in the middle of this book.
... Left from last year's TBR list: The Dark Side:The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer. I'm sorta glad I didn't get to it 'til now. Since this group in DC is on the way out, I may not end up as scared as I am now in the middle of this book. M ... ... Two Lessons I learned in a Combat Hospital Kraft, Heidi Squier
973.720 The Wrecking Crew Frank, Thomas 10/08
973.931 The Dark Side: The inside story of how the War on Terror turned into a War on American Ideals Jane Mayer 1/09
974.710 Tis McCourt, Frank 6/05
978.032 The Worst Hard Tim ... ... 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror
India ... ... Joann Fluke msg #17
2.Pawing through the Past Rita Mae Brown msg #20
3.Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout msg #
4.The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror turned into a War on American Ideals Jane Mayer msg#25
5.Shakespeare: World as Stage Bill Bryson msg #26
6.Bests ... ... of Jose Robles by Stephen Koch
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into A War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the Ne ... ... Man by John le Carre -- also one of my favorites of the year.
Netherland byJoseph O'Neill -- ditto.
The Dark Side by Jane Mayer -- Chilling and absorbing.
Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt -- Interesting, but I wouldn't consider it a top book.
When we do our own ... ... not read much non-fiction in the past 5 years, and suddently this year have found that I can't get enough of it.
1. The Dark Side: the inside story of how the war on Terror turned into a War on American Ideals Jane Mayer DONE 1/12/2009
2.The Nine - Inside the Secret World of the ... ... The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Philip Shenon, a New York Times reporter; and The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer, a New Yorker reporter. All of these are impeccably ... ... Abdulrazak Gurnah
Nonfiction
Blood-Dark Track by Joseph O'Neill
The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
48) The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by: Jane Mayer ---Excellent, excellent book...It talks about the various torture debates, and how executive power was usurped by Cheney and his sidekick Addington. Basically there were "laws" ... ... Hughes
A Way of Life Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien
Nonfiction
Blood-Dark Track by Joseph O'Neill
The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
I am likely to add the two books I'm reading now, Tree of Smoke and The Cave Painters, and maybe will finish something else before ... #5, ktleyed, Lush Life is one of my favorite books so far this year.
I'm on the verge of finishing The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, impeccably researched, horrifying, and chilling. I'm in 50s Hollywood with A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien, and in Washington in 2001 with The Dark Side by Jane Mayer. ... know the characters and their complex family relationships.
On the nonfiction side, I've started Jane Mayer's scary The Dark Side; I've admired her reporting in "The New Yorker."
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