The Dark Side by Jane Mayer

The Dark Side by Jane Mayer

The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. With a new afterward. 

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

National Bestseller

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 

A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

Jane Mayer is the author of three bestselling and highly acclaimed narrative nonfiction books and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, was co-authored with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, co-authored with Jill Abramson, was a National Book Award finalist. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of The New York Times' Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Walter Thompson Prize. The Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Goldsmith Book Prize, the Edward Weintal Prize, the Ridenhour Prize, the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism from the New York Public Library, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Excellence in Journalism The Kennedy Book Prize is given to the best book published in the United States

It was also a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Mayer has won the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I.F. Stone Award for her work at The New Yorker.