Kessler, Ronald. In the President's Secret Service. Excellent, informative. Who would have thought that nice Jimmy Carter was such a twit!
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun. Excellent. While I understand that following natural disasters unfortunate things happen, I am beyond appalled that a man could be arrested in his own home by men in varying states of uniform and without identifying themselves, taken to a prison without being allowed to notify anyone of his arrest, and kept without any legal process for weeks.
I got both of these from the library; check and see if your library has them.
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If you want to read a truly terrifying (but ultimately uplifting) book on a similar subject, try Steven T. Wax's "Kafka Comes to America." Wax, a federal public defender and current federal judge nominee writes about two defendents in the "War on Terror." One is an American family law attorney who converted to Islam and was misidentified by the FBI as being involved in a Spanish bombing, and the other a hospital worker imprisoned (again, mistakenly) at Abu Grab. Scary stuff and makes you wonder who the good guys are.
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