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false <![CDATA[Standard Operating Procedure]]> 270949 5 An utterly original literary and intellectual collaboration by two of our keenest moral and political observers has produced a nonfiction Heart of Darkness for our time: the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved. Standard Operating reveals the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the iconic photographs of the Iraq war-the haunting digital snapshots from Abu Ghraib prison that shocked the world-and simultaneously illuminates and alters forever our understanding of those images and the events they depict. Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol Morris's startlingly frank and intimate interviews with Americans who served at Abu Ghraib and with some of their Iraqi prisoners, as well as on his own research, Philip Gourevitch has written a relentlessly surprising account of Iraq's occupation from the inside out-rendering vivid portraits of guards and prisoners ensnared in an appalling breakdown of command authority and moral order. What did we think we saw in the infamous photographs, and what were we, in fact, looking at? What did the people in the photographs think they were doing, and why did they take them? What was "standard operating procedure" and what was "being creative" when it came to making prisoners uncomfortable? Who was giving orders, and who was following them? Where does the line lie between humiliation and torture, and why and how does that matter? Was the true Abu Ghraib "scandal" a result of an exposé or a cover-up? In exploring these questions, Gourevitch and Morris have crafted a nonfiction morality play that stands to endure as essential reading long after the current war in Iraq passes from the headlines. By taking us deep into the voices and characters of the men and women who lived the horror of Abu Ghraib, the authors force us, whatever our politics, to reexamine the pat explanations in which we have been offered -- or sought -- refuge, and to see afresh this watershed episode. Instead of a "few bad apples," we are confronted with disturbingly ordinary young American men and women who have been dropped into something out of Dante's Inferno. Standard Operating Procedure is a book that makes you think and makes you see -- an essential contribution from two of our finest nonfiction artists working at the peak of their powers. 2326719 3 4 2007 Standard Operating Procedure total:82|5:29|4:41|3:10|2:2|1:0| 82 343 201 28 4 7 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 17:18:37 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 11:06:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 10:08:57 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 10:12:18 -0800 2008 1 By Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris

While the general public in this country is somewhat knowledgeable of the prolonged agonies of the ongoing Iraq War, few of us are as acutely aware of the dark cloud of atrocities accompanying that war. Information ab...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 06:17:59 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 05:52:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 11:20:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 13:16:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 22 12:45:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 12:45:40 -0700 2009 STOP SMILING interview excerpt with filmmaker Errol Morris

THE ELEVEN-MINUTE PSYCHIATRIST
By James Hughes

(This interview originally appeared in STOP SMILING The Documentary Issue)

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Not for the faint of heart, but a truly insightful and riveting read. Gourevitch (who also wrote on the Rwanda genocide) and co-author Morris (who filmed Fog of War) have done a masterful job of contextualizing and giving a human face to the nightmare of Abu Ghraib prison.]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 13:30:29 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 13:32:08 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=270949