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　　A wide-ranging, provocative study of how our notions of

democracy, freedom, and tolerance are threatened during political,

social, and economic crises.

In this ambitious history, Jay Feldman takes us from the

run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria through the

September 11th attacks and Arizona’s current anti-immigration

movement. What we see is a striking pattern of elected officials

and private citizens alike inflaming pervasive American fears and

prejudices to ostracize minorities, silence dissent, and stem the

growth of civil rights and liberties. Among the many examples

Feldman discusses are the government’s first efforts, during the

Depression, to deport and “repatriate” Mexicans and Mexican

Americans; President Franklin Roosevelt’s order of “summary

apprehension” of 112,000 people during World War II; and the

viciousness of the Cold War anticommunist campaign and the

consequent Lavender Scare, in which thousands of gay government

employees were fired on suspicion of “moral weakness.”

Feldman considers these and other events not as a series of

discrete moments, but as part of a continuous vein that runs

through American life. In Manufacturing Hysteria he gives us a

timely and powerful reminder of the vigilance required to preserve

our most basic ideals.

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　　Jay Feldman is also the author of the critically acclaimed

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards. He is a widely published

freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Smithsonian,

Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Gourmet, The New York Times, and many

other national, regional, and local publications. He has written

for television and the stage, and is the author of the novel

Suitcase Sefton and the American Dream. His Web site is

www.jfeldman.com.

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书籍介绍

A vital, engaging, and sometimes troubling story of modern America’s struggle to live up to its ideals.

In this ambitious and wide-ranging history, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria through the September 11 attacks and Arizona’s current anti-immigration movement. What we see is a striking pattern of elected officials and private citizens alike using the American people’s fears and prejudices to isolate minorities (ethnic, racial, political, religious, or sexual), silence dissent, and stem the growth of civil rights and liberties.

Whether it’s the post–World War I persecution of radicals; the Depression-era deportations of Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans; the World War II internment of 112,000 ethnic Japanese along with thousands of German and Italian aliens; the Cold War campaigns against Communists, gays, and civil-rights activists; or the Vietnam-era COINTELPRO operations, we see how economic, military, and political crises have been used to curtail the rights of supposedly subversive minorities.

Much of the story can be laid at the feet of J. Edgar Hoover, but Feldman goes deeper to show how these tendencies have been part of a continuous vein that runs through American life. Rather than treating this history as a series of discrete moments, Feldman considers the entire programmatic sweep on a scale no one has yet approached. In doing so, he gives us a potent reminder of how, even in America, democracy and civil liberties are never guaranteed.