praisefor AMERICAN METHODS TORTURE AND THE LOGIC OF DOMINATION

"American Methods cogently gives the reader evidence of how the u.s. uses torture to control society and to protect U.S. hegemony, compelling us to re think power and to question the terror enacted in the name of democracy." ColorLines "Kristian Williams peels away the mythic veneer of American Innocence with an eloquence, power, and precision that stands largely unrivaled. The result is a book which not only deserves, but quite literally demands inclusion among the handful of works essential to understanding where it is we find ourselves at this awful moment in history. Read it if you dare, and especially if you don't."-Ward Churchill, author of A Little Matter of Genocide and On the Justice of Roosting Chickens '�merican Methods shines an unmediated light on this country's use of torture as an essential component of social control, both at home and abroad. Williams's exhaustive analysis tracks the use of torture in American police, military, and prison interrogation practices, illuminating the history of torture as a routin