Mark Danner

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Mark Danner has written about foreign affairs and American politics for three decades. For many years a staff writer at The New Yorker, he contributes frequently to the New York Review of Books and many other publications. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Bard College, mostra altro and speaks widely about America's role in the world. He is the author of Stripping Bare the Body, Torture and Truth, and The Massacre at El Mozote. mostra meno

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The Massacre at El Mozote (1994) 317 copie

Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (2004) 117 copie

Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (2009) 82 copie

The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006) 48 copie

Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War (2016) 37 copie

The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Throught the 2000 Florida Vote Re-Count (2004) 7 copie

Masacre (2017) 3 copie

Masakra w El Mozote. Opowieść o deprawacji władzy 1 copia

"A Reporter At Large: The Truth Of El Mozote" 1 copia

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The Best American Essays 2007 (2007) — Collaboratore — 471 copie

What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (2007) — Collaboratore — 127 copie

The Best American Political Writing 2006 (2006) — Collaboratore — 35 copie

The Best American Political Writing 2009 (2009) — Collaboratore — 26 copie

Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (2004) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

Grand Street 65: Trouble (Summer 1998) (1998) — Collaboratore — 9 copie

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Data di nascita: 1958-11-10
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Utica, New York, USA
Organizzazioni: Council on Foreign Relations
Breve biografia: Mark Danner is a writer, journalist and professor who has written for three decades on foreign affairs and international conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, Balkans, Iraq and the greater Middle East, among many other stories, and has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, with a focus on human rights violations during that time. His books include Torture and the Forever War (forthcoming, 2014), Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (2009), The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004), The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travel's Through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount (2004) and The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (1994). Danner was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. Danner is Chancellor's Professor of English and Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College.

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The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War di Mark Danner

In December 1981, during the fierce civil war in El Salvador, members of an elite strike force of the Salvadoran Army arrived at the village of El Mazote in a mountainous section of the country mostly controlled by leftist rebel forces and proceeded to murder somewhere around 800 villagers: men, women and children in the most horrible ways imaginable. The point was to demonstrate to the surrounding areas that the consequences of supporting for the rebels could be dire, even though even the most cursory investigation of El Mazote would have shown the army leaders that these villagers were doing their best to have nothing to do with either the rebels or the government's armed forces. Cruelty and viciousness was the point.

New Yorker reporter Mark Danner does an excellent job of setting up the background of the atrocity, geopolitically and internally. And then, using survivor testimony as well as the testimony of those few soldiers who were willing to talk to Danner anonymously, he walks readers step by step and atrocity by atrocity through that horrible afternoon. Then comes the aftermath, as the Reagan Administration, desperate to secure new funding for the Salvadoran army's fight against "Communist forces," did their best to obfuscate and to discredit as "biased" the first-hand (a couple of weeks after the fact) reporting by journalists from both the New York Times (including photographs) and the Washington Post.

Danner's subtitle for his book is "A Parable of the Cold War," and he does a very good job of setting up the pressure put on Congressmen, including Democrats who should have known better, not to cut funding and thus be responsible to "losing" El Salvador to Communism, especially coming so soon after the victory of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Although the term is never used in the book, "plausible deniability" was the dominant paradigm as far as the U.S. administration was concerned. Reports of the massacre, or of the horrifying number killed "could not be confirmed."

Danner's writing is clear and concise, and his reporting (the book is an expanded version of his writing for the New Yorker) is excellent. He has clearly spoken with everybody who would speak to him, including members of the U.S. Embassy in the country who know something bad had happened but had to couch their reports in very careful language to be sure they didn't run afoul of U.S. policy. The book proper is only around 150 pages long, but Danner then includes every document he was able to lay his hands on (the book was first published in 1994) including Embassy cables, State Department and Diplomatic Corps testimony before Congress, and pages-long reports by the Argentinian forensic team that finally exhumed the remains of the victims over a decade after the events. It's not really necessary to pour through all that (I mostly skimmed), as Danner does a very good job of describing those documents' contents throughout his narrative.… (altro)