The rights of the people how our search for safety invades our liberties
From a Pulitzer Prize winner and the bestselling author of "The Working Poor" comes 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.
| Main Author: | Shipler, David K., 1942- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Alfred A. Knopf,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
From a Pulitzer Prize winner and the bestselling author of "The Working Poor" comes 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. |
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| Item Description: |
A Borzoi book. |
| Physical Description: |
xvii, 366 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781400043620 (alk. paper) 140004362X (alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: |
Shipler was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and a former senior associate at the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. Over ten years of work went into Shipler's book, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. (Bowker Author Biography) |