Geoffrey Stone
War and Liberty
An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present
An essential work on the challenges of preserving civil liberties in wartime by a preeminent scholar of constitutional law.
Winner of eight national awards for his magisterial work Perilous Times, Geoffrey R. Stone has now created a condensed, updated, and more accessible history of civil liberties in wartime. With an in-depth examination of how our constitutional rights have fared during the presidency of George W. Bush, Stone reveals how the federal government has suppressed civil liberties in times of war throughout American history. A sparkling historical narrative, War and Liberty is the perfect book for any reader who wants to understand the current national debate and assess the state of our freedoms.
"[Stone is] a constitutional scholar and...a great storyteller."—Jonathan Karl, Wall Street Journal
"Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times is the most important book of its kind since Zechariah Chaffee Jr. first published his heralded Freedom of Speech in 1920."—Ron Collins, Freedom Forum
"One of our foremost scholars on constitutional law."—Herbert Mitgang, Los Angeles Times
Geoffrey R. Stone, the Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, was dean of the law school from 1987 to 1993. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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