Triumph of Fear - Domestic Surveillance Political Repression From Mckinley to

Informationen zum Autor Patrick G. Eddington is a senior fellow in homeland security and civil liberties at the Cato Institute. He was formerly a CIA analyst and a senior policy adviser to Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ). Klappentext A history with surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance and constitutional rights abuses In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, anarchist and socialist political movements spurred the expansion of nascent US federal surveillance capabilities. But it was the ensuing, decades-long persistent exaggerations of domestic political threats that drove an exponential increase in the size and scope of unlawful government surveillance and related political repression, which continue to the present. The Triumph of Fear is a history of the rise and expansion of surveillance-enabled political repression in the United States from the 1890s to 1961. Drawing on declassified government documents and other primary sources, many obtained via dozens of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits and analyzed for the first time, Eddington offers historians, legal scholars, and general readers surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance programs and how this domestic spying helped fuel federal assaults on free speech and association.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick G. Eddington
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781647125455
• ISBN: 978-1-64712-545-5
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social issues & processes, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Military intelligence, Constitution: government & the state, c 1890 to c 1899, Constitution: government and the state, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Control, privacy and safety in society, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law, HISTORY / Military / Intelligence & Espionage