false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165644394m/7823.jpg 7823 8 "Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror&#8211;its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.<br><br>As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics. 2368158 1983 Salvador total:369|5:85|4:138|3:122|2:19|1:5| 369 1386 521 26 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 16:58:10 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:25:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 09:17:53 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 11:21:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 20:28:41 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 17:01:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983 Sat Apr 25 20:11:17 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 20:17:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 25 19:47:16 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 19:54:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 20:58:17 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 14:00:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 09 11:19:24 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 16:02:19 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Tue Dec 23 16:45:27 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 16:46:18 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu May 07 11:24:08 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 11:24:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 16 22:51:28 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 22:52:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jul 26 05:08:12 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 05:09:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 20:13:51 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 11:36:08 -0700 2007
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Very moving, very humane, frustrating to see clumsy American foreign policy, prescient in light of current struggles to help not hurt Africa and the Mi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun May 13 15:10:29 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 17:08:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 18 10:56:52 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 10:58:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 25 13:07:09 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 13:08:55 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 18:30:13 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 20:37:14 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 17:07:26 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 16:08:18 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7823