| In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America Contributor(s): O'Donnell, Pierce (Author), Todd, Raymond (Read by), Lewis, Anthony (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0786167483 ISBN-13: 9780786167487 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $108.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: July 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Europe - Germany - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 940.537 |
| Physical Information: 1.98" H x 6.88" W x 6.14" (0.88 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It's a true story that reads like gripping fiction: in 1942, eight German terrorists landed by submarine on American shores on a sabotage mission devised by Hitler. When one of them, a hapless US citizen, betrayed the mission to the FBI, Roosevelt appointed a special military tribunal to authorize the death penalty omitting proper legal procedure. Army Colonel Kenneth Royall, a respected lawyer charged with defending the saboteurs, courageously fought the lost cause for the saboteurs' Constitutional rights. More than sixty years later, George W. Bush, in the wake of 9/11, cited Roosevelt's act as a precedent for indefinitely imprisoning US citizens and suspected "enemy combatants" without charge. O'Donnell illustrates the parallels between then and now, offering a cautionary tale of the danger of unchecked executive power in a time of crisis. |
Contributor Bio(s): Todd, Raymond: - Raymond Todd is an actor and director in the theater as well as a poet and documentary filmmaker. He plays jazz trombone for the Leatherstocking quartet, an ensemble that gets its name from one of his favorite Blackstone narrations, The Deerslayer. Todd lives in New York. O'Donnell, Pierce: -Pierce O'Donnell has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal and is coauthor of the bestseller Fatal Subtraction. A former US Supreme Court law clerk, he lives in Montecito, California. Lewis, Anthony: -Anthony Lewis was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who transformed American legal journalism. He is the author of Gideon's Trumpet which concerned Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 decision that guaranteed lawyers to poor defendants charged with serious crimes. Lewis was a New York Times reporter at the Supreme Court from 1957 to 1964 and wrote an Op-Ed column for thirty years called At Home Abroad or Abroad at Home depending on where he was writing from. He also taught at the Harvard Law School where he was a Lecturer on Law from 1974 to 1989. He has also been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Anthony Lewis died in 2013 at the age of eighty-five. |