In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country. Disturbing and provocative, It Did Happen Here is must-reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country has been built.
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Here 34 victims of political repression in the U.S. report on their experiences. "This compelling casebook compiled by a pair of Connecticut freelancers effectively makes the point that the assault on constitutional rights is not an isolated or long-vanished phenomenon," stated PW . Photos.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Police gunfire at Wobblies in 1916, the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans, and domestic FBI action in the 1970s all exemplify the political repression the Schultzes argue has been pervasive in 20th-century in America. They present interviews with 33 persons, some familiar (Scott Nearing and Ring Lardner Jr. ) but most whose ordeals are not widely known. These grave abuses ought to be lodged in historical memory; unfortunately, the interviews have been edited into a sameness of voice that detracts from their power, and readers may have difficulty in recalling one from the other. Still, whether or not one sees with Victor Navasky (in a foreword) the danger of a police state, the book is affecting and should be an optional choice for public and college libraries. A sequel is planned.
- Robert F. Nardini, N. Chichester, N . H.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Robert F. Nardini, N. Chichester, N . H.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A Must Read for all interested in Civil Liberties & Freedom,
By Joe From Kokomo "joe_from_kokomo" (Gainesville, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America (Paperback)
The book is filled with true first person accounts of how individual American citizens became the targets of their own government's vindictiveness for expressing their opposing political viewpoints, and the price each had to pay as a result. It is shockingly provocative. As the liner notes on the back of the book state, "It Did Happen Here is must reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country has been built...a compelling account of how close the Constitution can come to being extinquished - and what it takes to bring it back alive."
I am not in any way affiiliated with the author or publisher of this book, but I do know one of the individuals whose story is faithfully told in this book. He was a member of the Gainesville Eight, a Vietnam War protest group. Yet, I was quite overwhelmed by the stories told in this book about how far our government would go to suppress the freedoms of its dissenting citizens. Reading this book was very much an eye opening experience for me.
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Not only could 'it' (political repression) happen here, but it did happen here. Unfortunately, it is happening again on a large scale as the government holds people in secret and without trials. A much needed refresher course. This admirable oral history tells the stories of 33 mostly 'average' Americans punished under the color of law solely for their political activities.
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When they say the People they Do NOT mean Blacks, Indians, people from any other country except this one oh and people who work for wages. Hmmmm...that only leaves rich white people! WELL it won't happen again you say? IT'S HAPPENING NOW! It never stops. It never takes a vacation or a day off. It's gone on and on since Jamestown Colony and before! This is your heritage and legacy. This is your future rich or poor. What a deal.... Very good book indeed. I hope Jesus comes back soon. I want to see WHO gets the hook....
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Across this century the commandments of repression have been invoked against those who dared to think thoughts of dissent and then had the audacity to act on their thoughts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, Communist Party, First Amendment, Los Angeles, House Un-American Activities Committee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Edgar Hoover, Fifth Amendment, World War, Leonard Peltier, Martin Luther King, Cold War, New Jersey, Hollywood Ten, Soviet Union, Pine Ridge, American Civil Liberties Union, Scott Nearing, John Henry Faulk, Pete Seeger, Scott Camil, Smith Act, State Department New!
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Across this century the commandments of repression have been invoked against those who dared to think thoughts of dissent and then had the audacity to act on their thoughts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, Communist Party, First Amendment, Los Angeles, House Un-American Activities Committee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Edgar Hoover, Fifth Amendment, World War, Leonard Peltier, Martin Luther King, Cold War, New Jersey, Hollywood Ten, Soviet Union, Pine Ridge, American Civil Liberties Union, Scott Nearing, John Henry Faulk, Pete Seeger, Scott Camil, Smith Act, State Department New!
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- Political Repression in Modern America: 1870 to the Present by Robert J. Goldstein in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Political Repression in Modern America: FROM 1870 TO 1976 by Robert Justin Goldstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beyond the Hiss Case: The FBI, Congress, and the Cold War by Athan Theoharis on page 277, and Back Matter
- The Trial of Leonard Peltier by Jim Messerschmidt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933 by William Preston in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South by Catherine Fosl in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In Calmer Times: The Supreme Court and Red Monday by Arthur J. Sabin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The National Civic Federation and the Making of a New Liberalism, 1900-1915: by Christophe J. Cyphers on page 64, and Back Matter
- The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era (Perspectives in the Sixties) (Perspectives on the Sixties) by Richard Moser in Back Matter
- Making Medical History: The Life and Times of Henry E. Sigerist by Professor Elizabeth Fee on page 285
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