Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Book Reviews
Image courtesy: The New York Times
"It is no use saying torture never works; it periodically does work, and in some cases can avert a major attack."
The Times reviews a bunch of books on the Gitmo and Abu Ghraib torture scandals:
- Hard Questions
- The Meaning of Gitmo
- Andrew Sullivan on The Abu Ghraib Investigations and Torture and Truth.
And some scholarly books on life in the hood.
The social philosophies of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu are examined in The Credos of Eight Black Leaders: Converting Obstacles into Opportunities.
