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If this be treason : the American rogues and rebels who walked the line between dissent and betrayal /

Treason is the only crime explicitly defined in America's Constitution, and treason charges have been brought less than 30 times in American history. Yet, time and again throughout American history, cries of "treason" ring out against someone or some group whose actions seem to toe th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duda, Jeremy, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2016]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The unauthorized peacemaker
  • Speech becomes sedition
  • The Federalists' last stand
  • The rogue diplomat
  • The gray-eyed man of destiny
  • Striking the copperhead
  • The will of the people undone
  • American Bolshevik
  • The press goes to war
  • The road to McCarthyism
  • The Chennault affair
  • Arms for hostages and money for freedom fighters
  • Epilogue: a right to know.