Defending the Masses : A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech /

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"As muckrakers, feminists, pacifists, anarchists, socialists, and communists were arrested or censored for their outspoken views, many of them turned to a Manhattan lawyer named Gilbert Roe to keep them in business and out of jail. In articulating and upholding Americans' fundamental right...

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Main Author: Easton, Eric B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Roe, Gilbert E. > (Gilbert Ernstein), > 1865-1929.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Lawyers.
Freedom of speech.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
Progressisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Liberte d'expression > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Avocats > États-Unis > Biographies.
Progressivism (United States politics) > History > 20th century.
Freedom of speech > United States > History > 20th century.
Lawyers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a free speech pioneer
  • Getting started
  • The muckrakers
  • The anarchists
  • The feminists
  • The socialists
  • The pacifists I
  • The pacifists II
  • The communists
  • Winding down
  • Conclusion: Gilbert Roe's legacy.

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