It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America

By Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz

Book Overview

In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country. Disturbing and provocative, It Did Happen Here is must-reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country has been built.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520071972
• ISBN13: 9780520071971
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A great read that needs an update

Not only could 'it' (political repression) happen here, but it did happen here. Unfortunately, it is happening again on a large scale as the government holds people in secret and without trials. A much needed refresher course. This admirable oral history tells the stories of 33 mostly 'average' Americans punished under the color of law solely for their political activities.

A Must Read for all interested in Civil Liberties & Freedom

The book is filled with true first person accounts of how individual American citizens became the targets of their own government's vindictiveness for expressing their opposing political viewpoints, and the price each had to pay as a result. It is shockingly provocative. As the liner notes on the back of the book state, "It Did Happen Here is must reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country has been built...a compelling account of how close the Constitution can come to being extinquished - and what it takes to bring it back alive." I am not in any way affiiliated with the author or publisher of this book, but I do know one of the individuals whose story is faithfully told in this book. He was a member of the Gainesville Eight, a Vietnam War protest group. Yet, I was quite overwhelmed by the stories told in this book about how far our government would go to suppress the freedoms of its dissenting citizens. Reading this book was very much an eye opening experience for me.