The presidents and the people
five leaders who threatened democracy and the citizens who fought to defend it
The presidents and the people
five leaders who threatened democracy and the citizens who fought to defend it
Book - 2024
This meticulously researched account of assaults on democracy by five presidents who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and committed crimes with impunity shows how citizens like Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells and Daniel Ellsberg fought back against presidential abuses of power.
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Section I: The right to dissent: the journalists who demanded it. John Adams versus Cooper, Bache, and Duane : a president's attempt to shut down the opposition -- Thomas Jefferson and the Editors' Campaign : the recovery begins -- James Madison and Hanson : protecting speech during war -- Section II: Legal personhood: Frederick Douglass and the promise of "We the people." James Buchanan versus Frederick Douglass : a fake neutrality -- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the transformation of a president -- Andrew Johnson versus Frederick Douglass : a new threat in the midst of recovery -- Ulysses Grant and the Douglass constituency : securing the right to vote amid violence -- Section III: Equal protection: the long march against second-class citizenship. Woodrow Wilson versus Trotter and Wells : nationalizing white supremacy -- Harry Truman and Sadie Alexander : to secure these rights once more -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Martin Luther King Jr. : the road to recovery -- Section IV: The rule of law: the battle for presidential accountability. Richard Nixon versus Daniel Ellsberg and Grand Jury One : criminality in the Oval Office -- Coda: Our current crisis. | |
| 520 | |a This meticulously researched account of assaults on democracy by five presidents who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and committed crimes with impunity shows how citizens like Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells and Daniel Ellsberg fought back against presidential abuses of power. | ||
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