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Manfacturing Hysteria - A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America

✍ Scribed by Feldman, Jay

Book ID: 106980077
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2011
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 3 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780307379863

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✦ Synopsis

A vital, engaging, and sometimes troubling story of modern America's struggle to live up to its ideals.

In this ambitious and wide-ranging history, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria through the September 11 attacks and Arizona's current anti-immigration movement. What we see is a striking pattern of elected officials and private citizens alike using the American people's fears and prejudices to isolate minorities (ethnic, racial, political, religious, or sexual), silence dissent, and stem the growth of civil rights and liberties.

Whether it's the post--World War I persecution of radicals; the Depression-era deportations of Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans; the World War II internment of 112,000 ethnic Japanese along with thousands of German and Italian aliens; the Cold War campaigns against Communists, gays, and civil-rights activists; or the Vietnam-era COINTELPRO operations, we see how economic,...

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