Liberty Under Attack: Reclaiming Our Freedoms in an Age of Terror A Century Foundation Book - Couverture souple

Leone, Richard C.; Anrig, Gregory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1586484788 ISBN 13 : 9781586484781

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Leone Richard C Anrig Gregory

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 2003, when PublicAffairs and The Century Foundation published an essay collection called The War on Our Freedoms, there was the possibility and the hope that the risks to our liberties would be temporary—a brief era of reaction to already terrible events arising in the wake of 9/11. Today, we understand that the changes set in motion five years ago have broadened as the struggle against terrorism continues.

In this sequel, experts and activists including Alan Brinkley and Joseph Lelyveld, legal scholars Kathleen Sullivan and Stephen Schulhofer, and former government officials John Podesta and Bill Bradley report on the diverse actions, taken in the name of security, that will serve to undermine American liberties, and explain why the consequences of these actions are ultimately counterproductive in preventing future terrorism.

Today, we clearly see a disturbing pattern of undermining the judiciary, intimidating the press, and invading personal privacy. At the same time, government actions have fueled hostility to America in the world at large and in Islamic communities in particular. The terrorists threaten our liberty, but they are not the only ones.

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard C. Leone is president of The Century Foundation and has served as chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, president of the New York Mercantile Exchange, and a faculty member at Princeton University. Greg Anrig, Jr. is vice president of programs at The Century Foundation and the former Washington bureau chief of Money magazine.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1586484788
• ISBN 13: 9781586484781
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304