David T. Beito-The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously proclaimed freedom of speech as the first of his “four freedoms,” but his behavior, including confining over 120,000 American citizens in concentration camps, often belied such flowery prose.
In the new book The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance, Independent Institute Sr. Fellow David T. Beito exposes FDR’s dictatorial endeavors of spying on U.S. citizens, incarcerating minorities, censoring critics and the press, and essentially annihilating the Bill of…
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