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Lost liberties : Ashcroft and the assault on personal freedom / edited by Cynthia Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--United States.
- Civil rights.
- United States.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Terrorism--United States--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Ashcroft, John D., 1942-.
- Ashcroft, John D.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 324 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2003.
- Summary:
- In "Lost Liberties," 13 leading experts provide a detailed, comprehensive look at the USA Patriot Act, chronicling the destructive impact of crackdowns on thousands of Americans and revisiting the ugly history of political repression in times of crisis.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Tools for a new kind of war. The course of least resistance : repeating history in the war on terrorism / David Cole
- How democracy dies : the war on our civil liberties / Nancy Chang
- After 9/11 : a surveillance state? / Reg Whitaker
- pt. 2. The Ashcroft approach. Secret arrests and preventive detention / Kate Martin
- Racial profiling post-9/11 : old story, new debate / Tanya E. Coke
- Living in fear : how the U.S. government's war on terror impacts American lives / Anthony D. Romero
- The war on terrorism : the Guantánamo prisoners, military commissions, and torture / Michael Ratner
- Breaking the code, or, Can the press be saved from itself? / Michael Tomasky
- pt. 3. Privacy, secrecy, and public health. Balancing in a crisis? : Bioterrorism, public health, and privacy / Janlori Goldman
- The public health fallout from September 11 : official deception and long-term damage / Joel R. Kupferman
- pt. 4. Global threat, global citizen. Axis of antagonism : U.S.-European relations in the war on terrorism / Gary Younge
- The "war on terror" and women's rights : a Pakistan-Afghan perspective / Farida Shaheed
- Human rights, the Bush administration, and the fight against terrorism : the need for a positive vision / Kenneth Roth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1565848292
- OCLC:
- 52214672
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