Robert M. Pallitto is a professor of political science at Seton Hall University and the coauthor of Presidential Secrecy and the Law, also published by Johns Hopkins.

• List of DocumentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Colonial North America and the Early Republic2. Slavery and the Frontier3. Imperialism, Jim Crow, and World War4. The Cold War, Vietnam, and Torture by the Police5. The War on TerrorConclusionBibliographyIndex

Torture and State Violence in the United States is a very useful bit of research, bringing together many resources that readers would require hours or days to assemble on their own. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [Pallitto] tries to demonstrate that the cruelty manifest in American state violence-the genus of which torture is a species-has been a constant in the 400 years of American history. Choice

Robert M. Pallitto is a professor of political science at Seton Hall University and the coauthor of Presidential Secrecy and the Law, also published by Johns Hopkins.

• List of DocumentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Colonial North America and the Early Republic2. Slavery and the Frontier3. Imperialism, Jim Crow, and World War4. The Cold War, Vietnam, and Torture by the Police5. The War on TerrorConclusionBibliographyIndex

Torture and State Violence in the United States is a very useful bit of research, bringing together many resources that readers would require hours or days to assemble on their own. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [Pallitto] tries to demonstrate that the cruelty manifest in American state violence-the genus of which torture is a species-has been a constant in the 400 years of American history. Choice

Robert M. Pallitto is a professor of political science at Seton Hall University and the coauthor of Presidential Secrecy and the Law, also published by Johns Hopkins.

• List of DocumentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Colonial North America and the Early Republic2. Slavery and the Frontier3. Imperialism, Jim Crow, and World War4. The Cold War, Vietnam, and Torture by the Police5. The War on TerrorConclusionBibliographyIndex

Torture and State Violence in the United States is a very useful bit of research, bringing together many resources that readers would require hours or days to assemble on their own. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [Pallitto] tries to demonstrate that the cruelty manifest in American state violence-the genus of which torture is a species-has been a constant in the 400 years of American history. Choice