[PDF] Proceedings Of The Eighth Meeting Of The Governors Of The States Of The Union Held At Boston Massachusetts August 24 27 eBook

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 310 pages
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Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781332725489

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the Governors: Of the States of the Union Held at Boston, Massachusetts, August 24-27, 1915 Active membership in the Governors' Conference shall be restricted to the Governors of the several states and territories of the United States, the term Governors to include governors-elect. Ex - Governors shall be received as honorary members and, as such, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of active membership except the right of voting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0674244702

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Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.” —Los Angeles Times “That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.” —Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell “Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present.” —David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not torture, but that belief has repeatedly been challenged in moments of crisis at home and abroad. From the Indian wars to Vietnam, from police interrogation to the War on Terror, US institutions have proven far more amenable to torture than the nation’s commitment to liberty would suggest. Civilizing Torture traces the history of debates about the efficacy of torture and reveals a recurring struggle to decide what limits to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving and an erosion of limits on military power, the debate over torture remains critical and unresolved.