General Ashcroft
Subtitle: Attorney at War
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: April 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780700614554
Subjects: Biography: general; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics/International Relations; History; Biography / Autobiography; United States - 20th Century; Political Science; USA; History & Theory - General; Historical - U.S; Military; Biography; United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Legal History; Attorneys general; Civil rights
First sentence: This study examines the impact of the antiterrorism actions of U.S. Attorney General John David Ashcroft on the constitutional system of divided and checked powers.
Description: Reviled as a fascist and zealot by libertarians and liberals but praised as a great patriot and devout man of God by many conservatives, John Ashcroft may have been the most powerful and polarizing attorney general in our nation's history. Looking past such oversimplified stereotypes, Nancy Baker offers an in-depth study of Ashcroft's controversial tenure as attorney general--and as domestic commander in our campaign against global terrorism.