The Taming of Free Speech : : America’s Civil Liberties Compromise / / Laura Weinrib.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills for industrial interests. But by the Second World War, prominent figures in both camps celebrated the judiciary for prot...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (412 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Freedom of Speech in Class War Time
  • 2. The Citadel of Civil Liberty
  • 3. The Right of Agitation
  • 4. Dissent
  • 5. The New Battleground
  • 6. Old Left, New Rights
  • 7. The Civil Liberties Consensus
  • 8. Free Speech or Fair Labor
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index