The Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld was two lawyers’ attempt to overturn the system set up to try the detainees at Guantanamo. Lt. Commander Charles Swift was one of those lawyers; he was defense counsel for detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who had been Osama bin Laden's personal driver and bodyguard. Jonathan Mahler’s new book about the landmark case is The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power.

Events:
Jonathan Mahler will be speaking and signing books
Monday, September 22 at 7 pm
Book Court
163 Court Street
Brooklyn

Jonathan Mahler will be speaking and signing books
Monday, October 6 at 7 pm
Upper West Side Barnes & Noble
2289 Broadway, at 82nd Street