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fear itself inside the fbi roundup of german americans during world war ii
originally published as americas invisible gulag . now completely revised with additional chapters on pearl harbor and the deportation of germans from latin america . p in the wake of pearl harbor the only thing americans had to fear at home was fear itself a dread nurtured ironically by president franklin roosevelt who had warned the country in 1933 against giving in to panic . p weaving together first person interviews and government documents in this one of a kind study award winning author stephen fox tells the inside story of the internment and exclusion of thousands of german americans during the second world war . officials sought to protect the country from spies and saboteurs but they strayed far beyond . soon political and military leaders bureaucrats informants and suspects became trapped in a dehumanizing web of mutual arrogance distrust fear and panic where internal security decisions turned on the personality or character of suspects rather than their danger to the country . p fear itself is crucial to understanding how the united states stepped so easily into the anxious post 9 11 world of patriot acts and homeland security color coded terror warnings ethnic profiling preventive detention open ended incarceration even for those no longer considered dangerous unchecked executive power and the loss of citizenship .
hardcover iuniverse inc 2005 isbn13 9780595821457 isbn10 0595821456
book type nf isbn 13 9780595821457 number of pages 548 publisher iuniverse inc release date 62135769600000