Fighting faiths : the Abrams case, the Supreme Court, and free speech /
Index and selected bibliography included
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New York, N.Y. :
Viking,
1987
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : 1987 New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : 1987 New York, N.Y. : 1987 |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: A Farewell Dinner
- Anarchism and War
- The Immigrant Experience
- The World of Work
- Anarchism and East Harlem
- The Justice Department and the Sedition Act
- Woodrow Wilson and Russian Interrention
- The Arrests
- August 23, 1918
- Two Leaflets
- The Bomb Squad
- The Confessions
- The Indictments: Francis G. Caffey
- The Lawyer: Harry Weinberger
- The Trial
- War Fever
- John Reed and the Death of Jacob Schwartz
- The Judge: Henry DeLamar Clayton, Jr.
- The Prosecution's Case
- Raymond Robins and the Sisson Documents
- The Conviction
- The Judge as Prosecutor
- "The Feminist Radical"
- The Verdict
- The Sentencing
- Bonds for Bail
- The Surveillance State
- Aliens, Anarchists, and the Law
- The Machinery of Surveillance
- The World of the Undercover Agent
- J. Edgar Hoover and the Anarchists
- Frederic C. Howe: Social Reform and the Surveillance State
- The Supreme Court
- Conservatism and the Court
- Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Clear and Present Danger Standard
- Holmes and the Libertarians
- The Decision
- The Dissent
- The Response
- Flight and Arrest
- John H. Wigmore: "Freedom of Thuggery?"
- Sir Frederick Pollock and the Common Law
- Louis D. Brandeis: Thinking Through the Subject
- The " Trial" of Zechariah Chafee, Jr., at the Harvard Club
- Prison
- The American Prison System
- Blackwell's Island: the Workhouse
- Atlanta: "Huge Walls of Stone ... Tiny, Airless Cages"
- Jefferson City: Kate Richards O'Hare and Prison Reform
- Exile