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Title The war on our freedoms : civil liberties in an age of terrorism / edited by Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr.

Imprint New York : BBS PublicAffairs, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323.090511 W195 2003    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 317 p. ; 21 cm.
Note "A Century Foundation book."
Contents Foreword -- Introduction : Quiet republic : the missing debate about civil liberties after 9/11 / Richard C. Leone -- 1. Familiar story : lessons from past assaults on freedoms / Alan Brinkley -- 2. Security and liberty : preserving the values of freedom / Anthony Lewis -- 3. No checks, no balances : discarding bedrock constitutional principles / Stephen J. Schulhofer -- 4. "Least worst place" : life on Guantanamo / Joseph Lelyveld -- 5. Under a watchful eye : incursions on personal privacy / Kathleen Sullivan -- 6. Who are "we" now? : the collateral damage to immigration / Roberto Suro -- 7. New American dilemma : racial profiling post-9/11 / Christopher Edley, Jr. -- 8. From saviors to suspects : new threats to infectious disease research / Patricia Thomas -- 9. Need to know : governing in secret / John Podesta -- 10. Watchdogs on a leash : closing doors on the media / John F. Stacks -- 11. Fog of war : covering the war on terrorism / Stanley Cloud -- 12. Go-for-broke presidency : can national unity and partnership coexist / E. J. Dionne, Jr. -- 13. On the home front : a lawyers struggle to defend rights after 9/11 / Ann Beeson -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments.
Subject Civil rights.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
Terrorism -- Prevention.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Added Author Leone, Richard C.
Anrig, Greg, 1960-
ISBN 1586482106 (pbk.)
Standard No. UKM bA377560

 
    
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