Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency

by Senator Robert C. Byrd

W. W. Norton & Company; July 2004

In the months and years following September 11, Senator Robert C. Byrd has viewed with alarm what he considers to be a "slow unraveling of the people's liberties," when all dissenting voices were stilled and awesome power swung suddenly to the president to fight a "war on terror."