1. 'The Rights of the People'.
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LETTERS to the editor , *SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 , *NATIONAL security , *TERRORISM , *BOOKS - Abstract
To the Editor: Two of the misleading impressions left by Jonathan Mahler's review of my book ''The Rights of the People'' (June 12) deserve clarification. My research was framed less by my first thought on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 -- ''There go our civil liberties'' -- than by my more nuanced second thought, as explained in sentences that followed immediately: ''It was a rash prediction, I knew, and I quickly re-formed it into a question about how firmly we would hold our liberties in such a time of testing, whether the Bill of Rights would sustain us. I figured there would be deterioration, but how much?'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011