Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870–1920
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- Author: David M. Rabban, University of Texas, Austin
- Date Published: January 1998
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521620130
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Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I. However, there was substantial debate about free speech issues between the Civil War and World War I. Important free speech controversies, often involving the activities of sex reformers and labor unions, preceded the Espionage Act of 1917. Scores of legal cases presented free speech issues to Justices Holmes and Brandeis. A significant organization, the Free Speech League, became a principled defender of free expression two decades before the establishment of the ACLU in 1920. World War I produced a major transformation in American liberalism. Progressives who had viewed constitutional rights as barriers to needed social reforms came to appreciate the value of political dissent during its wartime repression. They subsequently misrepresented the prewar judicial hostility to free speech claims and obscured prior libertarian defenses of free speech based on commitments to individual autonomy.
Read more- Was the first book to examine free speech in America between Civil War and World War I
- Puts current free speech issues in valuable historical perspective
- Of interest to people interested in women's history, labour history, liberalism as well as free speech and civil liberties issues
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'This book will become a standard text for anyone who seeks a scholarly account of First Amendment jurisprudence.' International Trade and Business Law Annual
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- Date Published: January 1998
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521620130
- length: 422 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 32 mm
- weight: 0.77kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The lost tradition of libertarian radicalism
2. The IWW free speech fights
3. The courts and free speech
4. Legal scholarship
5. Free speech in progressive social thought
6. The Espionage Act
7. World War I and the creation of the modern Civil Liberties Movement
8. Holmes, Brandeis, and the judicial transformation of the First Amendment after World War I
9. Epilogue: current parallels to prewar progressive thought.
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