American Political Prisoners [Hardcover]

Styephen M. Kohn (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0275944158 | ISBN-13: 978-0275944155 | Publication Date: June 20, 1994

This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political prisoners arrested under various sedition laws for their opposition to World War I, their trade union activities, or their unpopular political or religious beliefs. Based on the author's exclusive access to the uncensored prison files of many of these prisoners, and information obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act, Kohn relays the powerful prison experiences of some of America's most famous and colorful labor, socialist, and peace leaders. With over ten years of research, and access to tens of thousands of pages of never-before released U.S. Department of Justice records, Stephen Kohn has been able to recreate the actual prison experiences of these political prisoners.

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"What Stephen Kohn has done is to document what happened, with the kind of specific detail--names, places, punishments, the feelings of prisoners, the rationales of wardens and politicians--that brings history alive in the most immediate way, that goes behind statistics to individual human beings. He has been able to do this by an extraordinary feat of research, extracting from a reluctant government the records that are published for the first time in this book."-from the foreword by Howard Zinn Professor Emeritus Boston University

Book Description

This work tells the stories of some of America's most famous and colorful labor, socialist, and peace leaders.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 248 pages
• Publisher: Praeger (June 20, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0275944158
• ISBN-13: 978-0275944155
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,986,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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