Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing

by Felice Picano

Book Overview

Can a U.S. president decide to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely without charges or secretly monitor telephone conversations and e-mails without a warrant in the interest of national security? Was the George W. Bush administration justified in authorizing waterboarding? Was President Obama justified in ordering the killing, without trial or hearing, of a U.S. citizen suspected of terrorist activity? Defining the scope and limits of emergency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299282244
• ISBN13: 9780299282240
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"