The Tree of Liberty: A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801856434 ISBN 13: 9780801856433

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Presented in more than 400 documents that range from Supreme Court decisions and newspaper accounts to anarchist flyers, media broadcasts and Internet postings, The Tree of Liberty forcefully demonstrates how challenges to government and authority have shaped the nation's thought, history, and freedom.

About this title

About the Author:

Nicholas N. Kittrie is the Edwin A. Mooers Scholar and professor of law at the American University Law School. He has served as counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and as president of the American Society of Criminology. His previous books include Crescent and Star: Arab-Israeli Perspectives on the Middle East Conflict, Sanctions, Sentencing, and Corrections, and The Right to be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy, which was published by Johns Hopkins. Eldon D. Wedlock, Jr., is professor of constitutional and criminal law at the University of South Carolina. He is author of The Emerging Rights of the Confined (with William S. McAninch), and has served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0801856434
• ISBN 13: 9780801856433
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Kittrie Professor Nicholas N., Wedlock Jr. PhD Professor Eldon D.