Political prisoners in America
The former New York Senator cites personalities who have been political prisoners in the course of American history and discusses the direction and justification of civil disobedience today.
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| Language: | English |
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New York,
Random House
[1973]
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Table of Contents:
- PART I POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
- Political Prisoners at the Beginning
- Opening Moves
- Obeying the "Higher Law,"
- Political Prisoners and the "War to End All Wars,"
- Repression of the International Workers of the World
- The Red Scare and the Palmer Raids
- Communists as Political Prisoners
- Modern Political Prisoners: Race
- Modern Political Prisoners: War
- Criminalizing the Political Process-A View from Inside
- HOW DOES REPRESSION SURVIVE IN AMERICA?
- The Urge to Repress Dissent
- Fiddling with the First Amendment
- Abuse of Discretion-The "Stretch Points" of Liberty
- What's Wrong .with Conspiracy?
- Where Did the Grand Jury Go?
- The Dark at the End of the Tunnel-A Police State?
- Fighting Back-Five Days in the Life
- PART Ill LIVING WITH CIVIL DISOBEDIENTS
- Civil Disobedience-Politics between the Ballot and the Bomb
- In Search of Justification
- Democracy and Anarchy
- Finding a Forum
- Political Trials