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It's a true story that reads like gripping fiction: in 1942, eight German terrorists landed by submarine on American shores on a sabotage mission devised by Hitler. When one of them, a hapless US citizen, betrayed the mission to the FBI, Roosevelt appointed a special military tribunal to authorize the death penalty omitting proper legal procedure. Army Colonel Kenneth Royall, a respected lawyer charged with defending the saboteurs, courageously fought the lost cause for the saboteurs' Constitutional rights.
More than sixty years later, George W. Bush, in the wake of 9/11, cited Roosevelt's act as a precedent for indefinitely imprisoning US citizens and suspected ';enemy combatants' without charge. O'Donnell illustrates the parallels between then and now, offering a cautionary tale of the danger of unchecked executive power in a time of crisis.
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eAudio Download - Immediately Available
- Format:eAudiobook MP3
- Run-time:14 hours 22 mins
- File size:1184.1MB
- Publisher:Blackstone Publishing
- Publication Date:01/01/2006
- ISBN:9781483065557
Information
-
eAudio Download - Immediately Available
- Format:eAudiobook MP3
- Run-time:14 hours 22 mins
- File size:1184.1MB
- Publisher:Blackstone Publishing
- Publication Date:01/01/2006
- ISBN:9781483065557