Perilous Times: Free Speech In Wartime : From The Sedition Act Of 1798 To The War On Terrorism
Stone, Geoffrey R.
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NOT an ex library book. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is clipped. Seller Inventory # 307403
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Title: Perilous Times: Free Speech In Wartime : ...
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: fine
Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
Edition: First edition, Complete Numbers .
About this title
Stone examines these pivotal episodes with a lawyer's attention to detail and precedence and a writer's focus on character and story structure. From Adams's secretary of state, the "grim-faced and single-minded" Timothy Pickering (who scanned the papers daily looking for seditious language) through John Ashcroft on one side, and the cheeky late-18th-century congressman Matthew Lyon and the Yippies of the 1960s on the other, there are plenty of characters enlivening these pages. Given its publication during the War on Terror, Stone's work feels particularly timely and vital. He devotes only a few pages to the post-9/11 environment, crediting George W. Bush for his refusal to scapegoat Muslims in the immediate aftermath of the attack, but castigating his administration for "opportunistic and excessive" actions centering around the Patriot Act. One wonders if Stone will some day be forced to update Perilous Times with a full chapter on the early 21st century. --Steven Stolder
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