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Unsafe for democracy
World War I and the U. S. Justice Department's covert campaign to suppress dissent
By Jr, William Birchard & Thomas, William Hannibal
- ISBN
- 978-0-29922-890-3
- Publisher
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 15, 2008
During World War I, the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) were used to prosecute men such as the socialist Eugene Debs for subversion. Thomas, an independent scholar, argues that in fact such high-profile trials were only a small part of the government's effort to suppress dissent. Thomas details how Justice Department officials, including the relatively new Federal Bureau of Investigation (pre-J. Edgar Hoover) took an ac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
