Homeland Security: A Documentary History provides a rich and
relevant exploration of the concept of homeland security throughout
the nation's history, leading up to an examination of the new
Homeland Security Department and its mission and impact. The
Homeland Security Department was created in 2002 and involved the
largest restructuring of the federal government in over forty
years. Yet American institutions and officials have responded to
homeland security issues throughout the life of the nation, for
example, with the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Homeland
Security explores the concept and challenges of homeland security
through government reports, budget proposals, public affairs
campaigns and press releases, speeches, testimony, and other
primary sources. Process for creating a new executive department
and changing institutions and bureaucracies; Steps, major debates,
and events leading up to the creation of the Department; Impact on
governmental institutions and employees, such as Congress and its
committees and structure, federal and state bureaucracies, and
civil servants; Budgetary implications at the federal and state
levels; Challenges and ramifications for citizens and civil
liberties; Missions and goals, such as aviation and border
security, crisis planning, and citizen preparedness. Supplemented
with a chronology, print and web resource list, and an index,
Homeland Security is unique in exploring historical antecedents as
well as the Department's impact on political institutions and the
ways Americans live and govern. Perfect for undergraduates in
political science and journalism programs, AP Social Studies
students, and public library patrons. publisher. His newspaper
reporting has won numerous national and state journalism awards,
and he has written, coauthored, edited, or contributed to more than
two dozen books. His most recent books include Insider's Guide to
Finding a Job in Washington: Contacts and Strategies to Build Your
Career in Public Policy (1999), How to Track Politics on the
Internet (1999) and How to Access the Federal Government on the
Internet, Fourth Edition (1999), all published by CQ Press.
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