Many Are the Crimes
Title | Many Are the Crimes PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Schrecker |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1998-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780316774703 |
From an award-winning McCarthy scholar comes the first post-Cold War exploration of the anticommunist witch-hunt and its devastating impact. Tracing the way that a network of dedicated anticommunists created blacklists and destroyed organizations, this broadbased inquiry reveals the connections between McCarthyism's disparate elements in the belief that understanding its terrible mechanics can prevent a repetition. of photos.
The Black Book of Communism
Title | The Black Book of Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphane Courtois |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 920 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674076082 |
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Three Felonies a Day
Title | Three Felonies a Day PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Silverglate |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2011-06-07 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1594035229 |
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committted several federal crimes that day ... Why?" This book explores the answer to the question, reveals how the federal criminal justice system has become dangerously disconnected from common law traditions of due process and the law's expectations and surprises the reader with its insight.
All the Missing Souls
Title | All the Missing Souls PDF eBook |
Author | David Scheffer |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 2013-01-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691157847 |
This title is Scheffer's account of the international gamble to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to redress some of the bloodiest human rights atrocities in our time.
No Ivory Tower
Title | No Ivory Tower PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Schrecker |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Education |
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The story of McCarthyism's traumatic impact on government employees and Hollywood screenwriters during the 1950s is all too familiar, but what happened on college and university campuses during this period is barely known. No Ivory Tower recounts the previously untold story of how the anti-Communist furor affected the nation's college teachers, administrators, trustees, and students. As Ellen Schrecker shows, the hundreds of professors who were called before HUAC and otehr committees confronted the same dilemma most other witnesses had faced. They had to decide whether to cooperate with the committees and "name names" or to refuse such cooperation and risk losing their jobs. Drawing on heretofore untouched archives and dozens of eprsonal interviews, Schrecker re-creates the climate of fear that pervaded American campuses and made the nation's educational leaders worry about Communist subversion as well as about the damage that unfriendly witnesses might do to the reputations of their institutions. Noting that faculty members who failed to cooperate with congressional committees were usually fired even if they had tenure, Schrecker shows that these firings took place everywhere--at Ivy League universities, large state schools and small private colleges. The presence of an unofficial but effective blacklist, she reveals, meant that most of these unfrocked professors were unable to find regular college teaching jobs in the U.S. until the 1960s, after the McCarthyist furor had begun to subside. No Ivory Tower offers new perspectives on McCarthyism as a political movement and helps to explain how that movement, which many people even then saw as a betrayal of this nation's most cherished ideals, gained so much power.
Why They Do It
Title | Why They Do It PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Soltes |
Publisher | Public Affairs |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2016-10-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1610395360 |
Financial fraud in the United States costs nearly $400 billion annually. The executives responsible for this corporate duplicity usually earn excellent salaries. So why do they become criminals? Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes shares his findings after years of extensive research. His numerous case histories make for fascinating reading. He speaks almost exclusively about men so don't look for gender-neutral pronouns. As Soltes explains, "Women are conspicuously absent from the ranks of prominent white-collar criminals." getAbstract recommends his compelling study to business students and professors, executives, business pundits, financial law enforcement officials and anyone who handles the money.
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
Title | Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do PDF eBook |
Author | Peter McWilliams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780931580581 |
McWilliams derides laws against "victimless crimes" like gambling, drug use, prostitution, homosexuality, and seat belt laws.