The Tree of Liberty: a Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 2
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publish date: 04/01/1998
Political criminals are as diverse as American society and history. They are not always violent, and some are not even activists. Their crimes might be merely failing to perform legal duties, such as swearing allegiance to the nation or ignoring the draft. The rights of women to vote and workers to strike, taken for granted today, have their roots in acts that the state once prosecuted. Echoes of these past struggles may resound today in fights for prayer in school and for animal rights.
Available as a single hardcover or in two paperback volumes (the first ranging from colonial times through World War II, and the second dealing with the Post-War era to the New World Order),The Tree of Liberty focuses on these and other issues in documents that span an extraordinary range. Supreme Court decisions and newspaper accounts, presidential proclamations and anarchist flyers, speeches, trial transcripts, diaries, letters, laws, media broadcasts, and Internet postings -- the more than 400 documents in The Tree of Liberty forcefully demonstrate how challenges to government and authority have shaped the nation's thought, history, and freedom.
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