Author: Socialist Party (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Socialist Party of America Papers, 1897-1963
Author: Socialist Party (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Socialist Party of America Papers, 1897-1963
Author: Elizabeth H. MurphreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Socialist Party of America Papers
Author: Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I
Author: Eric T. ChesterPublisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 1583678689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
World War I, given all the rousing “Over-There” songs and in-the-trenches films it inspired, was, at its outset, surprisingly unpopular with the American public. As opposition increased, Woodrow Wilson’s presidential administration became intent on stifling antiwar dissent. Wilson effectively silenced the National Civil Liberties Bureau, forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union. Presidential candidate Eugene Debs was jailed, and Deb’s Socialist Party became a prime target of surveillance operations, both covert and overt. Drastic as these measures were, more draconian measures were to come. In his absorbing new book, Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I, Eric Chester reveals that out of this turmoil came a heated public discussion on the theory of civil liberties – the basic freedoms that are, theoretically, untouchable by any of the three branches of the U.S. government. The famous “clear and present danger” argument of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the “balance of conflicting interest” theory of law professor Zechariah Chafee, for example, evolved to provide a rationale for courts to act as a limited restraint on autocratic actions of the government. But Chester goes further, to examine an alternative theory: civil liberties exist as absolute rights, rather than being dependent on the specific circumstances of each case. Over the years, the debate about the right to dissent has intensified and become more necessary. This fascinating book explains why, a century after the First World War – and in the era of Trump – we need to know about this.
Microfilm Holdings, December 1975
Author: United States. Department of Labor. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Historical Documentary Editions
Author: Historical Documentary Editions 1993
Author: Historical Documentary Editions 2000
Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920
Author: David R. BermanPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457109832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920 traces the history of radicalism in the Populist Party, Socialist Party, Western Federation of Miners, and Industrial Workers of the World in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Focusing on the populist and socialist movements, David R. Berman sheds light on American radicalism with this study of a region that epitomized its rise and fall. As the frontier industrialized, self-reliant pioneers and prospectors transformed into wage- laborers for major corporations with government, military, and church ties. Economically and politically stymied, westerners rallied around homegrown radicals such as William "Big Bill" Haywood and Vincent "the Saint" St. John and touring agitators such as Eugene Debs and Mary "Mother" Jones. Radicalism in the Mountain West tells how volleys of strikes, property damage, executions, and deportations ensued in the absence of negotiation. Drawing on years of archival research and diverse materials such as radical newspapers, reports filed by labor spies and government agents, and records of votes, subscriptions, and memberships, Berman offers Western historians and political scientists an unprecedented view into the region's radical past.