Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on TerrorismW. W. Norton & Company, 2004 - 730 pages Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises. |
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... WORLD WAR I : " CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER " ? 135 A Mere " Slip of a Girl " 138 War Opponents : Jane Addams , Eugene V. Debs , and Emma Goldman 140 The Espionage Act of 1917 146 " A Divided , Fearful , and Intolerant Nation " 153 The ...
... WORLD WAR I : " CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER " ? 135 A Mere " Slip of a Girl " 138 War Opponents : Jane Addams , Eugene V. Debs , and Emma Goldman 140 The Espionage Act of 1917 146 " A Divided , Fearful , and Intolerant Nation " 153 The ...
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... World War II 272 " A Dark Chapter in Our Record of the Last World War " 275 " No Official , High or Petty " 280 Aliens and Citizens 283 " A Jap's a Jap❞ 286 The " Ugly Abyss of Racism " 297 " We Now Know What We Should Have Known Then ...
... World War II 272 " A Dark Chapter in Our Record of the Last World War " 275 " No Official , High or Petty " 280 Aliens and Citizens 283 " A Jap's a Jap❞ 286 The " Ugly Abyss of Racism " 297 " We Now Know What We Should Have Known Then ...
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... World Wide Photos . 432 Anti - LBJ Demonstration . © Bettman / Corbis . 444 Lyndon Baines Johnson . Courtesy of Lyndon Baines Johnson Library . 1968 Democratic National Convention . AP / World Wide Photos . Richard M. Nixon . © Bettman ...
... World Wide Photos . 432 Anti - LBJ Demonstration . © Bettman / Corbis . 444 Lyndon Baines Johnson . Courtesy of Lyndon Baines Johnson Library . 1968 Democratic National Convention . AP / World Wide Photos . Richard M. Nixon . © Bettman ...
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... World War I , the federal government prosecuted some two thousand individuals for their opposition to the war and the draft . Those convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 were routinely sentenced to terms ...
... World War I , the federal government prosecuted some two thousand individuals for their opposition to the war and the draft . Those convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 were routinely sentenced to terms ...
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... World War I ; William Dudley Pelley , the self - proclaimed " Hitler of America " during World War II ; Eugene Dennis , the leader of the Communist Party at the height of the Cold War ; Lillian Hellman and Dalton Trumbo , who suffered ...
... World War I ; William Dudley Pelley , the self - proclaimed " Hitler of America " during World War II ; Eugene Dennis , the leader of the Communist Party at the height of the Cold War ; Lillian Hellman and Dalton Trumbo , who suffered ...
Contents
VIII | 17 |
IX | 21 |
X | 25 |
XI | 29 |
XII | 33 |
XIII | 44 |
XIV | 48 |
XV | 54 |
LI | 272 |
LII | 275 |
LIII | 280 |
LIV | 283 |
LV | 286 |
LVI | 297 |
LVII | 303 |
LVIII | 307 |
XVI | 61 |
XVII | 63 |
XVIII | 67 |
XIX | 73 |
XX | 77 |
XXI | 79 |
XXII | 81 |
XXIII | 82 |
XXIV | 94 |
XXV | 108 |
XXVI | 120 |
XXVII | 126 |
XXVIII | 133 |
XXIX | 135 |
XXX | 138 |
XXXI | 140 |
XXXII | 146 |
XXXIII | 153 |
XXXIV | 158 |
XXXV | 160 |
XXXVI | 170 |
XXXVII | 174 |
XXXVIII | 180 |
XXXIX | 182 |
XL | 184 |
XLII | 192 |
XLIII | 198 |
XLIV | 212 |
XLV | 220 |
XLVI | 226 |
XLVII | 232 |
XLVIII | 235 |
XLIX | 258 |
L | 266 |
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Page 11 - It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.