Threat of Dissent

A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States

Julia Rose Kraut

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$36.00 • £28.95 • €32.50

ISBN 9780674976061

Publication Date: 07/21/2020

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352 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Julia Rose Kraut, a lawyer and historian, was the inaugural Judith S. Kaye Fellow for the Historical Society of the New York Courts.

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At the October 2020 Washington History Seminar (cosponsored by the National History Center and the Wilson Center), watch Julia Rose Kraut discuss how the United States government has used ideological exclusions and deportations of noncitizens to suppress dissent and radicalism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the War on Anarchy to the Cold War to the War on Terror
On the podcast New Books in Political Science, listen to Kraut unpack how ideological exclusions and deportations are rooted in political fear of subversion
Watch Kraut present Threat of Dissent at an October 2020 online event hosted by New York City’s Tenement Museum
Watch Kraut’s conversation with Professor Robert Tsai at a September 2020 online event hosted by the New-York Historical Society
Read an interview with Kraut at the Law and History Review blog The Docket
At Lapham’s Quarterly, read an excerpt from Threat of Dissent on early American attempts to kick out foreigners

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