Author : Professor of Criminal Justice Samuel Walker
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ISBN 13 : 9781139380157
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)
Book Synopsis Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama by : Professor of Criminal Justice Samuel Walker
Download or read book Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama written by Professor of Criminal Justice Samuel Walker and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the full range of civil liberties issues: First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, press and assembly; due process; equal protection, including racial justice, women's rights, and lesbian and gay rights; privacy rights, including reproductive freedom; and national security issues. The book argues that presidents have not protected or advanced civil liberties, and that several have perpetrated some of the worst violations. Some Democratic presidents (Wilson and Roosevelt), moreover, have violated civil liberties as badly as some Republican presidents (Nixon and Bush). This is the first book to examine the full civil liberties records of each president (thus, placing a president's record on civil rights with his record on national security issues), and also to compare the performance on particular issues of all the presidents covered.