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- catalog abstract ""Troubled by the repression unleashed by World War I, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. insisted that the functioning of the democratic system depended on the right of all Americans to be heard, regardless of how obnoxious their views, provided their words posed no "clear and present danger." This concept, which became a defining aspect of the nation's political culture in the generation following the war, was put to the test during World War II by the "un-American" rhetoric of Communists, Bundists, Christian fundamentalists, Black nationalists, and others. This book tells how FDR's three attorneys general and their staffs struggled to adjust and apply the Holmesian ideal in the face of demands from the president and the public for philosophical conformity and total security. It examines how the ideal postulated by Holmes and generally accepted by liberals and intellectuals in the interwar period fared during its first real test in the conflict widely known as the "good war.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11220541.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Troubled by the repression unleashed by World War I, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. insisted that the functioning of the democratic system depended on the right of all Americans to be heard, regardless of how obnoxious their views, provided their words posed no "clear and present danger." This concept, which became a defining aspect of the nation's political culture in the generation following the war, was put to the test during World War II by the "un-American" rhetoric of Communists, Bundists, Christian fundamentalists, Black nationalists, and others. This book tells how FDR's three attorneys general and their staffs struggled to adjust and apply the Holmesian ideal in the face of demands from the president and the public for philosophical conformity and total security. It examines how the ideal postulated by Holmes and generally accepted by liberals and intellectuals in the interwar period fared during its first real test in the conflict widely known as the "good war.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-301) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "x, 309 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312173369".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "342.73/0853 21".
- catalog subject "Freedom of speech United States History.".
- catalog subject "KF4772 .S74 1999".
- catalog subject "War and emergency powers United States History.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Free speech in the good war / Richard W. Steele.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".