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Enemy Aliens by David Cole

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This publication explains how a series of extreme anti-terrorist reforms endanger the liberty of everyone in America. Cole argues that in times of crisis and fear Americans have often relied on double standards in the treatment of aliens that they would not tolerate if applied more broadly to them.

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Enemy Aliens by David Cole

When David Cole was first writing Enemy Aliens, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the anti-immigrant brand of American patriotism was at a fever pitch. Now, as the pendulum swings back, and court after court finds the Bush administration’s tactics of secrecy and assumption of guilt unconstitutional, Cole’s book stands as a prescient and critical indictment of the double standards we have applied in the war on terror. Called “brilliantly argued” by Edward Said and “the essential book in the field” by former CIA director James Woolsey, Enemy Aliens shows why it is a moral, constitutional, and practical imperative to afford every person in the United States the protections from government excesses that we expect for ourselves.
"David Cole is one of the country’s greatest voices for civil liberties today" —Anthony Lewis

"If there is a flaw in Cole’s logic, it escapes me." —John W. Dean, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Remarkable and fascinating." —The New York Review of Books
David Cole is the George Mitchell Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is the author of No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, the American Book Award–winning Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, and The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable and is a co-author (with James Dempsey) of Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security and (with Jules Lobel) of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, both published by The New Press. He lives in Washington, D.C.

SKU CIN1565848004G
ISBN 13 9781565848009
ISBN 10 1565848004
Title Enemy Aliens
Author David Cole
Condition Good
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The New Press
Year published 2003-11-13
Number of pages 315
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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