Quaker Initiative to End Torture

Recommended Reading


Book: Torture and Democracy
Darius Rejali
This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. 2009 Princeton University Press


Book: The United States and Torture
Marjorie Cohn
Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse. 2012 NYU Press


Book: The Dark Side
Jane Mayer
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. 2009 Doubleday (Reprint Edition: Anchor)


Book: Torture Is A Moral Issue
George Hunsinger
Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out. 2008 William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company


Book: The Guantanamo Files
Andy Worthington
The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison.  2007 Pluto Press


Book: In the Name of Democracy
Jeremy Brecher
American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (American Empire Project) Brecher, Jeremy, Jill Cutler and Brendan Smith, eds. 2005 Metropolitan Books


Book: The Pear Tree
Eric S. Carlson
Is Torture Ever Justified? 2006 Clarity Press


Book: Torture and Truth
Mark Danner
America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. 2004 DEL-New York Review Books


Book: The School of the Americas
Lesley Gill
Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (American Encounters/Global Interactions). 2004 Duke University Press


Book: The Torture Debate in America
Karen J. Greenberg
Captures the arguments on torture advanced by legislators, human rights activists, and others. 2005 Cambridge University Press


Book: The Torture Papers
Karen J. Greenberg
The Road to Abu Ghraib (Greenberg, Karen J. and Dratel, Joshua L., eds.) 2005 Cambridge University Press


Book: Truth, Torture, and the American Way
Jennifer K. Harbury
Offers well-documented evidence of the CIA’s continuous involvement in torture tactics since the 1970s. 2005 Beacon Press


Book: Searching For Everardo
Jennifer K. Harbury
A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala. 1997 Grand Central Publishing, First Edition


Book: Chain of Command
Seymour M. Hersh
The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. 2004 Harper Collins


Book: Torture: A Collection
Sanford Levinson
Contributors include Ariel Dorfman, Elaine Scarry, Alan Dershowitz, Judge Richard Posner, Michael Walzer, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and others.  2004 Oxford University Press, USA


Book: A Question of Torture
Alfred McCoy
CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (American Empire Project).  2006 Metropolitan Books


Book: School of Assassins
Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
Guns, Greed, and Globalization. 2001 Orbis Books


Book: Guantanamo: What the World Should Know
Michael Ratner
(Politics of the Living) by Michael Ratner, Ellen Ray, Anthony Lewis. 2004 Chelsea Green Publishing


Book: State of War
James Risen
The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. 2006 Free Press