| In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror Contributor(s): Temple-Raston, Dina (Author), Romero, Anthony D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061142573 ISBN-13: 9780061142574 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, takes a look at the frightening erosion of personal freedom at a time when many tenets of the Bill of Rights have been suspended in the name of national security. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship - Political Science | Terrorism |
| Dewey: 323.490 |
| Lexile Measure: 1644 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.38" W x 7.98" (0.53 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Romero, Anthony D.: - Anthony D. Romero has been executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union since September 2001. He lives in New York City. Temple-Raston, Dina: -Dina Temple-Raston's previous books include A Death in Texas and Justice on the Grass. She lives in New York City. |