Free Speech in the Good War

Introduction PART I: FRANK MURPHY: FROM FREE SPEECH FOR EVERYONE TO THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST UN-AMERICANISM 1919-1939 Repression Rejected Reform and a Mission for the Justice Department Un-Americanism and the Culture of Investigation The Onset of War Symbolic Prosecution PART II: ROBERT JACKSON: 'HOLDING THE LINE AT A DECENT POINT' Jackson and the 'Lawyerly Way' No American OGPU 'Drawing the Line at a Decent Point' Changing Concepts of Civil Liberties Dealing With Labor 'Subversives' PART III: FRANCIS BIDDLE: COMPROMISE AND RESISTANCE Proving Himself The Suspect List and the Enemy Alien No Tolerance for the Intolerant Censorship Black Sedition Exclusion, Denaturalization and Deportation Conclusion Obnoxious Speech on Trial