Perilous Times by Geoffrey R Stone
Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon to the Supreme Court justices Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren to the resisters Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.
Geoffrey R. Stone is the author of the prize-winning Perilous Times. He is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and one of our nation’s leading constitutional scholars.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393327458 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393327450 |
| Title | Perilous Times |
| Author | Geoffrey R Stone |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2005-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 800 |
| Prizes | Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2004, Winner of New York Times Notable Selection 2004, Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 2005 |
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