ISBN-13: 9780307388230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 416 str.
A riveting and unsettling history of the assault on civil rights and liberties in America from World War I to the War on Terror by the acclaimed author of "When the Mississippi Ran Backwards."
In this ambitious and wide-ranging account, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria to the September 11 attacks and Arizona s current anti-immigration movement. What we see is a striking pattern of elected officials and private citizens alike using the American people s fears and prejudices to isolate minorities (ethnic, racial, political, religious, or sexual), silence dissent, and stem the growth of civil rights and liberties. Rather than treating this history as a series of discrete moments, Feldman considers the entire programmatic sweep on a scale no one has yet approached. In doing so, he gives us a potent reminder of how, even in America, democracy and civil liberties are never guaranteed."