Reining in the State: Civil Society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate Eras

Name: Reining in the State: Civil Society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate Eras
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ISBN: 9780700618972

ISBN-10: 070061897X

ISBN-13: 9780700618972

Edition: 2013

Authors: Katherine A. Scott

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Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon dramatically expanded the federal government's domestic security apparatus to cope with social unrest that rocked their administrations. By the mid-1970s, the Justice Department and Army maintained some 400 databanks containing nearly 200 million files on supposedly subversive individuals and organizations. Katherine Scott chronicles the subsequent public response to that government action: a determined citizens' movement to rein in the state. She details the efforts of a group of unheralded heroes who battled to reinvigorate judicial, legislative, and civic oversight of the executive branch in order to curtail and prevent future abuses by…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 248
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"Recruiting an Army": Russ Wiggins Demands Transparency



"What's Going On in the Black Community?": Ramsey Clark Investigates Civil Disorder



"A Communist behind Every Bush": The Army Spies on Civilians



Senator Sam, or How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Southern Segregationist



It's "Poppycock": Congress Challenges Executive Privilege



An "Effective Servant of the Public's Right to Know": Representative Moorhead Revises FOIA



"Tempers Change, Times Change, Public Attitudes Change": Passing FISA


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index