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Mark Danner's Book Tour

Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War

Get your copy of Stripping Bare the Body signed by Mark Danner at the following locations:

Book Tour Details:

Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009. 6.30 p.m.
Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20009. (Phone: 202-387-7638)
The conversation will be followed by audience questions and a book signing.



New York, NY
Thursday, October 15, 2009. 7 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street (Between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York, NY 10011.

Join award-winning writer Mark Danner as he discusses his groundbreaking new book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (Nation Books). Danner will be interviewed by investigative journalist Amy Goodman, co-founder and host 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 conversation will be followed by audience questions and a book signing.



Seattle-Tacoma, WA
Mark Danner: Reports from the World's Hot Spots
Wednesday, November 11, 2009. 7.30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle, Center for Civic Life, 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street), Seattle, WA 98101. (Phone: 206-652-4255)

For the past two decades, author and award-winning journalist Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East, exploring not only the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power. From the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti to the tumultuous rise of Aristide; from the onset of the Balkan Wars to the painful fragmentation of Yugoslavia; and to the invasion of Iraq and the legacy of the Bush administration, Danner, former staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Stripping Bare the Body, has visited some of the world's most troubled regions, bringing back lessons on politics, violence, and war.
Presented by Town Hall's Center for Civic Life, with Elliott Bay Book Company. Series supported by RealNetworks Foundation, the Brown Foundation and the Otto Haas Charitable Trust.

Advance tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, or at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.



San Francisco, CA
Thursday, November 12, 2009. 6 p.m.
World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, California 94108. (Phone: 415-293-4600)



Berkeley, CA
Friday, November 13, 2009. 3 p.m.
Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley, 2334 Bowditch Street, Berkeley, CA 94720. (Phone: 510-642-2088)



Berkeley, CA
Friday, November 13, 2009. 7.30 p.m.
The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, California 94117. (Phone: 415-863-8688)

New York, NY
Wednesday, November 16, 2009. 6.30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), New York, NY 10016. (Phone: 212-817-2005)

New York, NY
Wednesday, December 9, 2009. 7 p.m.
McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012. (Phone: 212-274-1160)



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