A history with surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance and constitutional rights abuses
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, anarchist and socialist political movements spurred the expansion of nascent US federal surveillance capabilities. But it was the ensuing, decades-long persistent exaggerations of domestic political threats that drove an exponential increase in the size and scope of unlawful government surveillance and related political repression, which continue to the present.
The Triumph of Fear is a history of the rise and expansion of surveillance-enabled political repression in the United States from the 1890s to 1961. Drawing on declassified government documents and other primary sources, many obtained via dozens of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits and analyzed for the first time, Eddington offers historians, legal scholars, and general readers surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance programs and how this domestic spying helped fuel federal assaults on free speech and association.
By:
Patrick G. Eddington
Imprint: Georgetown University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781647125455
ISBN 10: 1647125456
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Photographs Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction Chapter 1: 1893-1914 ""With Care, Secrecy, and Dispatch"" Chapter 2: 1914-1932 ""Disloyal Utterances"" Chapter 3: 1933-40 ""The Spirit of the Concentration Camp"" Chapter 4: 1941-45: ""We are developing a Gestapo in this country and it frightens me."""" Chapter 5: 1945-52: ""One nation divided, with fear and insecurity for all"""" Chapter 6: 1953-61 ""Is this idolatry of security?"" Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author
Patrick G. Eddington is a senior fellow in homeland security and civil liberties at the Cato Institute. He was formerly a CIA analyst and a senior policy adviser to Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ).
