Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism

Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents--Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon--to the Supreme Court justices--Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren--to the resisters--Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/17/2005
ISBN: 9780393327458
Pages: 800
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.90w x 1.50d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 116
New York Times 11/20/2005 pg. 28
Kliatt 03/01/2006 pg. 40