《MANUFACTURING HYSTERIA》是Random House US2011年8月出版的圖書，作者是Jay Feldman。
基本介紹
- 書名：MANUFACTURING HYSTERIA
- 作者：Jay Feldman
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780375425349
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
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.
作者簡介
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.
