MARCUS G. RASKIN is a professor at the School of Public Policy at the George Washington University and founder of the Institute of Policy Studies. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty books, including The Four Freedoms Under Siege: The Clear and Present Danger from Our National Security State (Potomac Books, 2009). He lives in Washington, D.C.
“Marcus Raskin has been warning us for decades about the perils and
paranoia associated with the National Security State. Raskin as
much as anyone in America anticipated the nightmare we are now
living. In this new paperback edition of The Four Freedoms Under
Siege, Raskin and his coauthor Robert Spero show why it is
essential for Congress and the citizenry to force our Executive at
long last—to come to terms with a national security policy
mechanism that has ended up producing catastrophe domestically and
internationally.”—Seymour M. Hersh, contributor to the New
Yorker
“Raskin and Spero have written an important book about the
corporate state's assault on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
proclamation of the Four Freedoms from his 1941 annual message to
Congress. The analysis is compelling. And the need to champion the
Four Freedoms—Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from
Want, and Freedom from Fear—is overwhelming.”—Ralph Nader
“Provides a thorough and sobering account of how gravely certain
leaders have betrayed the very rights that our fellow Americans
first articulated. This accessible and compelling book belongs on
the shelves of all who seek to think critically about liberty,
justice, and our government. Fully restoring these fundamental and
universal rights is of first priority, and Raskin and Spero have
created an airtight case for the call.”—Congressman John Conyers,
Jr. (D-MI)
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