Manufacturing Hysteria

Author : Jay Feldman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307388230

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Manufacturing Hysteria by Jay Feldman Pdf

A riveting and unsettling history of the assault on civil rights and liberties in America—from World War I to the War on Terror—by the acclaimed author of When the Mississippi Ran Backwards. In this ambitious and wide-ranging account, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria to 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. Rather than treating this history as a series of discrete moments, Feldman considers the entire programmatic sweep on a scale no one has yet approached. In doing so, he gives us a potent reminder of how, even in America, democracy and civil liberties are never guaranteed.

Author : Anthony Gregory
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780299308803

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American Surveillance by Anthony Gregory Pdf

A nuanced history and analysis of intelligence-gathering versus privacy rights.

Author : Peter Stehman
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640121003

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Patriotic Murder by Peter Stehman Pdf

Robert Prager, a lonely German immigrant searching for the American dream, was probably the most shameful U.S. casualty of World War I. From coast to coast, Americans had been whipped into a patriotic frenzy by a steady diet of government propaganda and hate-mongering. In Collinsville, Illinois, an enraged, drunken mob hung Prager from a tree just after midnight on April 5, 1918. Coal miners in the St. Louis suburb would show the nation they were doing their patriotic part—that they, too, were fighting the fight. And who would stop them anyway? Not the alderman or businessmen who watched silently. Not the four policemen who let Prager from their custody, without drawing a weapon. And who would hold the mob leaders accountable? Certainly not the jury that took just ten minutes to acquit them, all while a band played “The Star-Spangled Banner” in the courthouse lobby. Peter Stehman sheds light on the era’s hijacking of civil liberties and a forgotten crime some might say has fallen prey to “patriotic amnesia.” Unfortunately, the lessons from Patriotic Murder on intolerance and hate still resonate today as anti-immigration rhetoric and über-nationalism have resurfaced in American political discussion a century later.

Author : Jeffrey L. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440831003

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Scapegoating Islam by Jeffrey L. Thomas Pdf

Exploring the experience of Muslims in America following 9/11, this book assesses how anti-Muslim bias within the U.S. government and the larger society undermines American security and democracy. In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, Muslims in America have experienced discrimination and intolerance from the U.S. government and American citizens alike. From religious and ethnic profiling to hate crimes, intolerance against Muslims is being reinforced on multiple levels, undercutting the Muslim community's engagement in American society. This text is essential for understanding how the unjust treatment of American Muslims following September 11 has only served to alienate the Muslim community and further divide the United States. Authored by an expert analyst of policy for 20 years, this book explores the prejudice against Muslims and how the actions of the U.S. government continue to perpetuate fear and stereotypes within U.S. citizens. The author posits that by respecting the civil rights of Muslims, the government will lead by example in the acceptance of American Muslims, improving homeland security along with the lives of Muslims living in the United States.

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476637693

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Horror Comes Home by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't. This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors explore the shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next. Well known films are covered--including Psycho, Get Out, Insidious: The Last Key and Winchester House--along with films produced outside the U.S. by directors such as Alejandro Amenabar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage), and often overlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger.

Author : David Begelman Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781796025903

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What’s Up, Doc? by David Begelman Ph.D. Pdf

What's Up Doc? Psychology on the Rocks is an anthology of essays dealing critically with the published writings of theorists like Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, B. F. Skinner, Paul McHugh, Sören Kierkegaard, Thomas Szasz, M. Scott Peck, and Bernie Siegel, as well as shorter pieces on Thomas Nagel, Freeman Dyson, and Oliver Sacks.

Author : David Begelman Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781669844921

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Essays on the Edge by David Begelman Ph.D. Pdf

"Essays On the Edge" is an anthology of articles on several different topics, including Psychotherapy, The Mental Illness Myth, Freud, The Unconscious, Method Technique, Ingmar Bergman, Stanislavsky, Psychiatric Misadventures, Abortion, Animal Rights, False Confessions, Immortalist Dreams and Art Unbound.

Author : Ben M. Debney
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811555695

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The Oldest Trick in the Book by Ben M. Debney Pdf

This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill’s truism that history is written by the victors. To that end, it explores historical episodes of political persecution carried out under cover of moral panic, highlighting the process of ‘Othering’ common to each and theorising a historical model of panic-driven scapegoating from the results. Building this model from case studies in witch panic, communist panic and terrorist panic respectively, The Oldest Trick in the Book builds an argument that features common to each case study reflect broader historical patterning consistent with Churchill’s maxim. On this basis it argues that the periodic construction of bogeymen or ‘folk demons’ is a useful device for enabling the kind of victim-playing and victim-blaming critical to protecting elite privilege during periods of crisis and that in being a recurring theme historically, panic-driven scapegoating retains great ongoing value to the privileged and powerful, and thus conspicuously remains an ongoing feature of world politics.

Author : Eric Alterman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541616813

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Lying in State by Eric Alterman Pdf

This definitive history of presidential lying reveals how our standards for truthfulness have eroded -- and why Trump's lies are especially dangerous. If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that he lies. But he's by no means the first president to do so. In Lying in State, Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief, showing that, from early on, the United States has persistently expanded its power and hegemony on the basis of presidential lies. He also reveals the cumulative effect of this deception-each lie a president tells makes it more acceptable for subsequent presidents to lie-and the media's complicity in spreading misinformation. Donald Trump, then, represents not an aberration but the culmination of an age-old trend. Full of vivid historical examples and trenchant analysis, Lying in State is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived in this age of alternative facts.

Author : Stephen E. Gottlieb
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479823147

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Unfit for Democracy by Stephen E. Gottlieb Pdf

Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few consider the role of constitutional law in America's survival. In Unfit for Democracy, Stephen Gottlieb argues that constitutional law without a focus on the future of democratic government is incoherent, illogical and contradictory. Approaching the decisions of the Roberts Court from political science, historical, comparative, and legal perspectives, Gottlieb highlights the dangers the court presents by neglecting to interpret the law with an eye towards preserving democracy-- From back cover.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1422 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116499393

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : John Lofland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351496155

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Protest by John Lofland Pdf

This volume addresses three major issues: What are the circumstances in which people elect to protest; what are the forms of such action; and how do people organize to do so? Phrased differently, what are the contexts of protest (collective behavior), personal readiness for protest (conversion), and finally joining together for protest in movement organizations and movement strategies.The key to the book's value is its theoretical sophistication. These studies address in a systematic way fundamental alternatives to organizing protests and outline in detail options for structuring units of social movement. The author deals especially with movement organization locals, including "corps" and "cells." Such units are examined in terms of how they coexist and how they exist sequentially through time. Several case studies of movement organization are included, such as the Unification Church and Mankind United.The work places a heavy emphasis on protest action or strategy. In the final section four chapters examine the entire gamut of strategic possibilities, ranging from polite politics to violent action. Protest is a distinctive and complex strategy. The work carefully evaluates varieties of protest that have become significant in the 1980s. In each section of the book Lofland draws out underlying themes and issues that interrelate the studies and places protest in the larger context of political and social change and theories to date.

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230619593

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Selling the Great War by Alan Axelrod Pdf

The riveting, untold story of George Creel and the Committee on Public Information -- the first and only propaganda initiative sanctioned by the U.S. government. When the people of the United States were reluctant to enter World War I, maverick journalist George Creel created a committee at President Woodrow Wilson's request to sway the tide of public opinion. The Committee on Public Information monopolized every medium and avenue of communication with the goal of creating a nation of enthusiastic warriors for democracy. Forging a path that would later be studied and retread by such characters as Adolf Hitler, the Committee revolutionized the techniques of governmental persuasion, changing the course of history. Selling the War is the story of George Creel and the epoch-making agency he built and led. It will tell how he came to build the and how he ran it, using the emerging industries of mass advertising and public relations to convince isolationist Americans to go to war. It was a force whose effects were felt throughout the twentieth century and continue to be felt, perhaps even more strongly, today. In this compelling and original account, Alan Axelrod offers a fascinating portrait of America on the cusp of becoming a world power and how its first and most extensive propaganda machine attained unprecedented results.

Author : United Nations Development Programme
Publisher : [Geneva] : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Clothing trade
ISBN : UCSD:31822034542852

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Women's Employment in the Textile Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco by United Nations Development Programme Pdf

Published in co-operation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), this publication contains a number of papers based on research carried out during 1992 to 1998 into the experiences of women workers in export manufacturing in Morocco and Bangladesh, focusing on the textile sector.

Author : William Pepper,Louis Starr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UCAL:B3721162

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A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors: Diseases of the nervous system by William Pepper,Louis Starr Pdf