The Seamy Side of Democracy: Repression in America

Mr. Wolf does a good job of documenting the numberous violations of civil liberties throuhout American History and shows how easy civil liberties can be denied to those who challenge America's sacred institutions especially capitalism. The author uses as examples of government suppression of anti-capitalist movements, the attacks on the IWW after World War One and the attacks on the Black Panther Party in the late Sixties early Seventies under the Cointelpro program. This book was published in 1973 but with the War on Terror and laws such as the PATRIOT ACT the authors message that America often walks the tight rope between liberalism and Fascism is more relevant then ever.