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, mehr anzeigen 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. weniger anzeigen
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- 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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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.… (mehr)