Law and Politics Book Review Looks at Geof Stone's "War and Liberty"

In the Law and Politics Book Review, published by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Torin Monahan of Arizona State University's School of Justice and Social Inquiry reviews Geof Stone's recent book,  WAR AND LIBERTY: AN AMERICAN DILEMMA: 1790 TO THE PRESENT.Monahan writes that the book "offers one effective means of encouraging discussion of [challenges to the preservation of civil liberties and an active civil society], especially in classroom environments, and fostering productive critique of current practices in light of similar (and dissimilar) ones in the past."

Comments

[Joan A. Conway]

I really don't think a man and woman with 13 children need to enforce their civil liberties as much as one woman with grown children. Do you think that the obvious social impact of demonstrating your comment to the better good, like the Pitts, removes a lot of otherwise barriers faced by those living for themselves?

[Kimball Corson]

Teachers don't teach us anything. We learn ourselves and they guide or provoke us. They identify the topics and issues, if you will. It is up to us to learn. Milton Friedman and Geof Stone both used or use this operating principal more intelligently than most, Friedman conspicuously; Geof, more subtlety. Either way, it is the stuff of good teachers.