The Triumph of Fear
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The Triumph of Fear

Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
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The Triumph of Fear

Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower

About this book

A history with surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance and constitutional rights abuses

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, anarchist and socialist political movements spurred the expansion of nascent US federal surveillance capabilities. But it was the ensuing, decades-long persistent exaggerations of domestic political threats that drove an exponential increase in the size and scope of unlawful government surveillance and related political repression, which continue to the present.

The Triumph of Fear is a history of the rise and expansion of surveillance-enabled political repression in the United States from the 1890s to 1961. Drawing on declassified government documents and other primary sources, many obtained via dozens of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits and analyzed for the first time, Eddington offers historians, legal scholars, and general readers surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance programs and how this domestic spying helped fuel federal assaults on free speech and association.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Photographs
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. “With Care, Secrecy, and Dispatch”: 1893–1914
  12. 2. “Disloyal Utterances”: 1914–1932
  13. 3. “The Spirit of the Concentration Camp”: 1933–1941
  14. 4. “We Are Developing a Gestapo in This Country and It Frightens Me”: 1941–1945
  15. 5. “One Nation Divided, with Fear and Insecurity for All”: 1945–1952
  16. 6. “Is This Idolatry of Security?”: 1953–1961
  17. Conclusion
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author