Title:
Manufacturing hysteria : a history of scapegoating, surveillance, and secrecy in modern America
Author:
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
