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Rights at risk : the limits of liberty in modern America / David K. Shipler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shipler, David K., 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--United States--History.
- Civil rights.
- United States.
- History.
- Liberty.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 379 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
- Summary:
- A Pulitzer Prize winner delivers an enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the insolence of office
- Torture and torment
- Confessing falsely
- The assistance of counsel
- The tilted playing field
- Below the law
- Silence and its opposite
- A redress of grievances
- Inside the schoolhouse gate
- The Constitutional culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307594860
- 0307594866
- OCLC:
- 745979760
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