Cover image for Manufacturing hysteria : a history of scapegoating, surveillance, and secrecy in modern America
Title:
Manufacturing hysteria : a history of scapegoating, surveillance, and secrecy in modern America
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
Physical Description:
xix, 378 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780375425349
Contents:
Prologue : against the wall -- The fine gold of untainted Americanism -- A democracy gone mad -- The heel of the government -- A peculiar sort of mental hysteria -- The gravest menace to the country -- A skimming of the great American melting-pot -- A lawless government -- Grave abuses and unnecessary hardships -- The utmost degree of secrecy -- A Jap is a Jap -- Scare hell out of the country -- A neurotic nightmare -- There were many wrecked lives -- There are no rules -- We never gave it a thought -- Epilogue : an aggressive assault on civil liberties.
Language:
English
Holds: 0
Library
Click to Sort
Material Type
Click to Sort
Shelf Location
Click to Sort
Shelf Number
Click to Sort
Item Barcode
Click to Sort
Status
Click to Sort
Central Branch
Adult non-fiction book Nonfiction 323.490973 FEL 39066030012948
Nonfiction