Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama

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This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the full range of civil liberties issues: First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, press and assembly; due process; equal protection, including racial justice, women's rights, and lesbian and gay rights; privacy rights, including reproductive freedom; and national security issues. The book argues that presidents have not protected or advanced civil liberties, and that several have perpetrated some of the worst violations. Some Democratic presidents (Wilson and Roosevelt), moreover, have violated civil liberties as badly as some Republican presidents (Nixon and Bush). This is the first book to examine the full civil liberties records of each president (thus, placing a president's record on civil rights with his record on national security issues), and also to compare the performance on particular issues of all the presidents covered.

Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama Review

Liberals have their list of great presidents and conservatives, theirs, but no one on any position in the political spectrum could likwly anticipate some of the findings of this book. Certainly I didn't. Wilson, who I thought one of the great Democratic Party progressives, was in fact arguably more repressive than any Republican President and wanted only to "crush" those who disagreed with his leading America into WW I. We all know about Harding, or think we do, until we find that he was the first President and the last until Truman, to advocate for full political equality for African-Americans, going so far as to beard the lions of segregation in their own Birmingham Alabama den, with a civil rights speech that certainly ranks among the most courageous ever given by an American president. And on it goes, our heroes are found to have blemishes and our villains have unexpected laurels when it comes to civil rights and civil liberties. The generalization one can make is that when we elect a president, be our choice conservative or liberal, we won't know until later how they actually feel about our bill of rights protections...and this book shows that generally the record has not been good. Well-written, concise histories of each presidency starting with Wilson to the present are given and the 500+ pages of fine print, well annotated, is a joy to read either seriatum or simply dipping into various president's administrations. I would recommend, with this book, a companion piece of reading: Political Repression in Modern America from 1870 to the Present, by Robert J Goldstein, a reworking and amended version of a doctoral dissertation. Goldstein's book further illuminates some of the incidents you will find interesting in Samuel Walker's excellent book.

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