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Reining in the State: Civil Society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate Era
Katherine A. Scott
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Description for Reining in the State: Civil Society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate Era
Hardcover. Examines the 1970s citizens' movement to rein in the state to restrain domestic surveillance, protect individual rights, and ensure greater transparency and accountability from the federal government." Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JPH; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon dramatically expanded the federal government’s domestic security apparatus to cope with social unrest that rocked their administrations. By the mid-1970s, the Justice Department and Army maintained some 400 databanks containing nearly 200 million files on supposedly subversive individuals and organisations.
Katherine Scott chronicles the subsequent public response to that government action: a determined citizens’ movement to rein in the state. She details the efforts of a group of unheralded heroes who battled to reinvigorate judicial, legislative, and civic oversight of the executive branch in order to curtail and prevent future abuses by ... Read more
Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon dramatically expanded the federal government’s domestic security apparatus to cope with social unrest that rocked their administrations. By the mid-1970s, the Justice Department and Army maintained some 400 databanks containing nearly 200 million files on supposedly subversive individuals and organisations.
Katherine Scott chronicles the subsequent public response to that government action: a determined citizens’ movement to rein in the state. She details the efforts of a group of unheralded heroes who battled to reinvigorate judicial, legislative, and civic oversight of the executive branch in order to curtail and prevent future abuses by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700618972
SKU
V9780700618972
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About Katherine A. Scott
Katherine A. Scott is Assistant Historian with the U.S. Senate.
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