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In the weeks following 9/11, the Bush administration launched the Patriot Act, rejected key provisions of the Geneva Convention, and inaugurated a sweeping electronic surveillance program for intelligence purposes―all in the name of protecting national security. But the current administration is hardly unique in pursuing such measures. In Security v. Liberty, Daniel Farber leads a group of prominent historians and legal experts in exploring the varied ways in which threats to national security have affected civil liberties throughout American history. Has the government's response to such threats led to a gradual loss of freedoms once taken for granted, or has the nation learned how to restore civil liberties after threats subside and how to put protections in place for the future? Security v. Liberty focuses on periods of national emergency in the twentieth century―from World War I through the Vietnam War―to explore how past episodes might bear upon today's dilemma. Distinguished historian Alan Brinkley shows that during World War I the government targeted vulnerable groups―including socialists, anarchists, and labor leaders―not because of a real threat to the nation, but because

Who reads Security V. Liberty : Conflicts Between National Security and Civil Liberties in American History?

Author

Daniel Farber (editor)

Publisher

Russell Sage Foundation

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871543271

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Law, Social_sciences