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Stanley I. Kutler (1934–2015)

Autore di Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes

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Stanley Ira Kutler was born in Cleveland, Ohio on August 10, 1934. He graduated from Bowling Green State University and earned a doctorate from Ohio State. He joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty in 1964. He taught there for 32 years until he retired in 1996. In 1992, he filed a mostra altro lawsuit with Public Citizen against the National Archives and Records Administration to win the release of more than 3,000 hours of conversations tape-recorded in the Oval Office during Richard Nixon's presidency. As a result of his suit, 201 hours of tapes related to unethical or illegal activity were released in 1996. The 340 hours of Nixon tapes were released in 2013. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes, Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics, Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon, and The American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War. He wrote a play entitled I, Nixon and created a television program with the comedian Harry Shearer entitled Nixon's the One. He also edited the Dictionary of American History and founded and edited the journal Reviews in American History. He died from heart failure on April 7, 2015 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Absolutely superb. Well acted audiobook.
 
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Tosta | 4 altre recensioni | Jul 5, 2021 |
A very complete account of an important case and the legal, political and societal tensions associated with the case.
 
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cjneary | May 21, 2020 |
There is no scholar better versed in the matters of Watergate than Stanley Kutler, and this is his definitive account of the subject. In it he lays out in painstaking detail the course the crisis took, from its origins in the Nixon presidency to its legacy today. I expected such an account to be dull; instead, I found it impossible to put down. No reader can walk away from this book -- with its extensive evidence and clearly-reasoned arguments -- and not have a deeper understanding of what Watergate was and how it effected the nation, both then and now.… (altro)
 
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MacDad | 2 altre recensioni | Mar 27, 2020 |
The Korean War, Russia's successful A-bomb test, and the "Fall of China" precipitated an atmosphere of paranoia and fear during the 1950's, aggravated by self-aggrandizing politicians and a sycophantic media. Anxiety over espionage and subversion from within provided justification to suppress anything "un-American," and created a craving for patriotic conformity.

The legal process was manipulated to legitimize legislators' own ends. The so-called McCarran Rider (1947) granted authority to the Secretary of State to summarily dismiss any employee, in the interests of national security, without regard to existing laws or regulations (or the Constitution, for that matter). Truman's Executive Order 9835 (1947) prescribed procedures for a comprehensive loyalty oath program. This was expanded by Eisenhower's Executive Order 10450 (1953) which provided for suspension from work if the employee was simply deemed unreliable; the burden of proof rested on the accused. Wholesale dismissals followed, but no communists or sympathizers were ever identified. A climate of fear existed among government workers, independence was stifled and replaced by a "bland orthodoxy."

Stanley Kutler has documented these fearful times in The American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War He examines 12 cases of individuals who, quite frankly, got screwed for their personal beliefs, or in the case of Beatrice Baude, even by accident.

Baude had been rated a superior and loyal employee of the United States Information Agency. An ephemeral association with an organization of intellectuals later considered to be left-wing during the 40s (when Russia was our ally, no less) resulted in her being blacklisted even though a Loyalty Board investigation had ruled there was no evidence of disloyalty, quite the contrary. But the mere hint of an investigation in those days was enough justification for termination. She was not told of the blacklist and was even encouraged to apply for other jobs with the USIA.

Despite scores of 100% on Civil Service Exams, she was still unable to get a job as late as 1974 because of the blacklist. She only discovered the existence of the blacklist when her lawyer filed a request for information under the Privacy Act of 1974. They discovered that the real reason for her dismissal - that she had been interrogated (even though cleared) - had been camouflaged in her files.
Her case was fraught with "Catch-22s" and continued even in 1981 as the book was being written. Her case illustrates one of Kutler's themes: that the nameless bureaucracy will often continue the policies of a discredited leader even though the political context has changed. Often the indians have more power than the chiefs.

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