ISBN: 0252069641 9780252069642

Category: History / United States / State & Local / General

Page count: 682

Robert Justin Goldstein's <i>Political Repression in Modern America</i> provides the only comprehensive narrative account ever published of significant civil liberties violations concerning political dissidents since the rise of the post-Civil War modern American industrial state. A history of the dark side of the "land of the free," Goldstein's book covers both famous and little-known examples of governmental repression, including reactions to the early labor movement, the Haymarket affair, "little red scares" in 1908, 1935, and 1938-41, the repression of opposition to World War I, the 1919 "great red scare," the McCarthy period, and post-World War II abuses of the intelligence agencies.<br> <br> <br> <br> Enhanced with a new introduction and an updated bibliography, <i>Political Repression in Modern America</i> remains an essential record of the relentless intolerance that suppresses radical dissent in the United States.<br> <br>