Free Speech in the Good War

by Richard W. Steele

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 ideal, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312173369
• ISBN13: 9780312173364
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"