The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens

by Bernard E. Harcourt

Book Overview

A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States -- one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541697286
• ISBN13: 9781541697287
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"