The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties by Shipler, David K.

The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400079285)

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The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties by Shipler, David K.

The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

$16.95
The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties by Shipler, David K.

The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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An impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade--and their direct impact on our lives.

How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler searches for the answers to these questions by traveling the midnight streets of dangerous neighborhoods with police, listening to traumatized victims of secret surveillance, and digging into dubious terrorism prosecutions. The law comes to life in these pages, where the compelling stories of individual men and women illuminate the broad array of government's powers to intrude into personal lives. Examining the historical expansion and contraction of fundamental liberties in America, this is the account of what has been taken--and of how much we stand to regain by protesting the departures from the Bill of Rights. And, in Shipler's hands, each person's experience serves as a powerful incitement for a retrieval of these precious rights.

Author: David K. Shipler
ISBN-10: 1400079284
ISBN-13: 9781400079285
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2012
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.23w x 1.14d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/26/2012 pg. 24
By David K. Shipler
By David K. Shipler
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David K. Shipler reported for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of four other books, including the best sellers Russia and The Working Poor, and Arab and Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Shipler, who has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has taught at Princeton University; at American University in Washington, D.C.; and at Dartmouth College. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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