Takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of AbuGhraib from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American innercities an... » 

Takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of AbuGhraib from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American innercities and from French and British colonial prison cells and the SpanishAmerican War to the fields of Vietnam the wars of the Middle East and thedemocracies of Latin America and Europe. «