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1 online resource (570 pages) |
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Cover; PRESIDENTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES FROM WILSON TO OBAMA; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction: Presidents and Civil Liberties; SCENES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE; February 19, 1942; November 26, 1963; POOR CUSTODIANS OF AMERICAN LIBERTIES; PRESIDENTS AND AMERICA'S CORE VALUES; From Wilson to Obama; Presidential performance: The major themes; Introduction; Surprises; A dialogue about America; PART I: The Early Years; 2: Woodrow Wilson and the Suppression of Civil Liberties in World War I; "SUCH CREATURES ... MUST BE CRUSHED OUT." |
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WILSON, PROGRESSIVISM, AND CIVIL LIBERTIESWAR AND REPRESSION BEGIN, 1917; Two civil liberties crises: The draft and the Espionage Act; Burleson, the Post Office, and the scope of freedom of the press; Government-sponsored vigilantism; WILSON'S ROLE IN THE REPRESSION; THE MIND OF THE PROGRESSIVE REFORMER; Wilson on national unity, democracy, and liberty; The challenge of immigration; "The social possibilities of war"; A different path: The odyssey of Roger Baldwin; Launching the fight for civil liberties; Military spying and attacks on the Civil Liberties Bureau. |
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THE FINAL ORGY: THE RED SCARE, 1919-1920AN OMINOUS LEGACY: ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE; MOVING BACKWARD ON RACE; War and race riots; African Americans and the war effort; 1919: More riots and an antilynching campaign; A RELUCTANT PATH TO WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE; BRANDEIS TO THE SUPREME COURT; END OF A PRESIDENCY -- DAWN OF THE CIVIL LIBERTIES ERA; 3: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover: Civil Liberties in the Wilderness; CIVIL LIBERTIES IN A CHANGING AMERICA; Presidents and civil liberties in the twenties; THE RED SCARE "HANGOVER"; "Normalcy" and repression; The continuing crusade against "reds." |
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AMNESTY FOR THE VICTIMS OF WARTIME PROSECUTIONSPOLITICAL SPYING CONTINUES; KEEPING DANGEROUS IDEAS OUT OF THE UNITED STATES; Glimmers of hope -- and a nascent right to privacy; A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE; Civil rights enters national politics; President Harding's great -- but brief- moment; The campaign for a federal antilynching law; Herbert Hoover's tangled position on race; Hoover on race as president; ALICE PAUL, THE ERA, AND A NEW DIRECTION FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS; SEX AND CENSORSHIP: THE POST OFFICE AND THE CUSTOMS BUREAU; "The national book censor"; Banning the Sex Side of Life. |
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ATTACKING THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF ORGANIZED LABORRousting the Bonus Army: President Hoover and freedom of assembly; LAWLESS POLICING: PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT; Report on the "third degree": Attacking police misconduct; FREEDOM TO TEACH: THE SCOPES CASE; STRAWS IN THE WIND: THE SUPREME COURT SHIFTS; END OF THE REPUBLICAN ERA; 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Mixed Legacy of a Strong President; "THE GREATEST VIOLATION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY"; FDR and civil liberties; THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN TRAGEDY: FDR DECIDES; FDR's decision making. |
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Fdr, the constitution, and presidential power. |
| Summary |
This is the first book to examine the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-520) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Presidents -- United States.
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Presidents. |
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United States. |
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Civil rights -- United States.
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Civil rights. |
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Executive power -- United States.
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Executive power. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walker, Samuel. Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama : A Story of Poor Custodians. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107016606 |
| ISBN |
9781139377294 |
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1139377299 |
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9781139061261 (electronic book) |
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1139061267 (electronic book) |
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9781139380157 (electronic book) |
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113938015X (electronic book) |
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9781107016606 |
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1107016606 |
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9781139375863 |
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