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    <body><![CDATA[A good read about how activists in Brazil and Uruguay dealt with the legacy of torture under their respective military dictatorships. I appreciated two things about this book: 1. The indepth discussion of how the regimes came into place and the role of the U.S. in their ascension to power; 2. The fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48945763">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for the first time in college. Almost 10 years later it is still powerful. It deals with the political, moral, and psychological aspects of how countries recover from the torture and repression of their recent pasts. I like how the roles and voices of ordinary people are highlighted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55919316">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[wow. a compelling, smart, readable book - about the worst things that humans do to each other, about how we recover from those things, and about how people work together heroically in order to overcome atrocity. even if reading about human rights atrocities doesn't sound fun - this is a wonderful, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33577877">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! It kind of blew my mind as to how so much deceit, torture, and really- pure evil could take place and be hid from the rest of the world for so long. Not really a &quot;feel good&quot; book, but very interesting.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has a lot of graphic torture details which were really hard to force myself to read, but I feel like everyone should read this book. It helps that it's written by this guy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot; 'Quiet Daddy.  They're the eyes of the birds.  They're hiding.' &quot;  I dare anybody to read this book and not weep.]]></body>
    
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