The Tree of Liberty: Colonial Era to World War II: Vol 1

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.

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.