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The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side
Clive Stafford Smith
Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay
Nation Books
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
336 pages ISBN: 1568583745 EAN: 9781568583747 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
At a July 17, 2003 press conference held jointly with Prime
Minister Tony Blair, President George W. Bush described the
prisoners held in Guantanamo: “The only thing I know for
certain is that these are bad people.” They are, supposedly,
the worst of the worst of the world’s terrorists. Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith is one of the few
people in the world who has had independent access to the
prisoners at Guantanamo, representing more than fifty. Eight
O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side is his remarkable account
of his descent into the darkly comic world of Guantanamo, a
legal black hole in which the bleakness of the surroundings
are punctuated by moments of humor and absurdity. From the
absence of security at the airport, to the army protecting
iguanas on the roads, Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward
Side goes beyond the headlines to tell the true story of
life at Guantanamo. By bearing witness to the prisoner’s stories, Smith also
asks what is done to our understanding of American democracy
when the rule of law is jettisoned in the name of combating
terrorism.
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