Anthony D Romero, Dina Temple-Raston

In Defense of Our America

The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror

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Produktbeschreibung

"A brave, powerful book from one of freedom's most courageous defenders. These stories remind us how real -- how personal -- the threats to our Constitutional rights really are -- and of the duty that we all have to protect them in times of trouble. Woven through these riveting chapters is a strong reminder: democracy is the best security." -- Eli Pariser, Founder and Executive Director, MOVEON.ORG Executive Director of the ACLU Anthony D. Romero and award-winning journalist Dina Temple-Raston present stories of real Americans at the front lines of the fight for civil liberties at a time when our most basic rights are being challenged. From the story of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh to the battle against the National Security Agency's warrantless spying program, and from a movement in Pennsylvania to force religion into the public school science curriculum to the case of Matthew Limon, a gay teenager sentenced to seventeen years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenage boy in Kansas, In Defense of Our America offers readers an eye-opening look at the dangerous erosion of rights in the post-9/11 age of terror and chronicles the courageous ongoing struggle of ordinary Americans to preserve our hard-won constitutional freedoms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780061142574
• ISBN-10: 0061142573
• Artikelnr.: 23172739

Autorenporträt

Anthony D. Romero has been executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union since September 2001. He lives in New York City.