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Manufacturing hysteria : a history of scapegoating, surveillance, and secrecy in modern America / Jay Feldman.
Van Pelt Library JC599.U5 F415 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feldman, Jay, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--United States--History.
- Civil rights.
- Marginality, Social.
- History.
- Dissenters.
- United States.
- Dissenters--United States--History.
- Marginality, Social--United States--History.
- Hysteria (Social psychology).
- Physical Description:
- xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- In this ambitious history, Feldman shows us a striking pattern of elected officials and private citizens alike inflaming pervasive American fears and prejudices to ostracize minorities, silence dissent, and stem the growth of civil rights and liberties.
- Contents:
- Prologue : against the wall
- The fine gold of untainted Americanism
- A democracy gone mad
- The heel of the government
- A peculiar sort of mental hysteria
- The gravest menace to the country
- A skimming of the great American melting-pot
- A lawless government
- Grave abuses and unnecessary hardships
- The utmost degree of secrecy
- A Jap is a Jap
- Scare hell out of the country
- A neurotic nightmare
- There were many wrecked lives
- There are no rules
- We never gave it a thought
- Epilogue : an aggressive assault on civil liberties.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375425349
- OCLC:
- 664842395
- Publisher Number:
- 99946135650
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