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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard W Steele |
ISBN: | 0312173369 9780312173364 |
OCLC Number: | 40298282 |
Description: | x, 309 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: A Legacy of Restraint -- Frank Murphy: 1939 -- Champion of Civil Liberties -- "Not a Soft, Pudgy Democracy" -- Robert H. Jackson: January 1940-June 1941 -- A "Lawyerly Way" -- Changing Concepts of Civil Liberties -- Searches, Stealing, and Tappings -- Harry Bridges and the War on Communism -- Francis Biddle: June 1941-June 1945 -- Attorney General by Default -- The "Minneapolis Reds": A "Clear and Present Danger"? -- Free Speech for Fascists? -- Nazi Themes and "Dirty Little Sheets": Postal Censorship -- "Where Sedition Begins and Ends Among Negroes" -- The Denaturalization Strategy -- "Crackpots and Cranks from All Parts of the Nation" -- The Great Sedition Trial: The End of the Campaign Against Disloyalty. |
Responsibility: | Richard W. Steele. |
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Abstract:
Troubled by the 'herd' instinct and repression unleashed by World War I, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes insisted that the right of any American to be heard depended on the right of all Americans to speak regardless of how obnoxious their views.
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