| Description |
1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The unauthorized peacemaker -- Speech becomes sedition -- The Federalists' last stand -- The rogue diplomat -- The gray-eyed man of destiny -- Striking the copperhead -- The will of the people undone -- American Bolshevik -- The press goes to war -- The road to McCarthyism -- The Chennault affair -- Arms for hostages and money for freedom fighters -- Epilogue: a right to know. |
| Summary |
Treason is the only crime explicitly defined in America's Constitution, and treason charges have been brought less than 30 times in American history. Yet, time and again throughout American history, cries of "treason" ring out against someone or some group whose actions seem to toe the line between American dissent and American betrayal. If This Be Treason covers a half-dozen cases of near-treason, from the 18th Century's George Logan to today's Edward Snowden, providing a unique lens through which to view American history, partisan politics, global politics, how freedom of the press and free. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dissenters -- United States -- History.
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Treason -- United States -- History.
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Traitors -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Dissenters. |
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Politics and government. |
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Traitors. |
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Treason. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Duda, Jeremy, 1980- If this be treason. Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2016] 9781493024018 (DLC) 2016022394 |
| ISBN |
9781493024025 (electronic bk.) |
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1493024027 (electronic bk.) |
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9781493024018 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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1493024019 |
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