Perilous times : free speech in wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the war on terrorism /
Geoffrey R. Stone.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2004.
- xx, 730 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction - War Fever. "Congress Shall Make No Law". The Lessons of History. Chapter I - The "Half War" with France: The First Amendment : The Lyon of Vermont -- On War Footing -- "A Mere Bugbear"? -- The Alien Acts: "All Is Darkness, Silence, Mystery, and Suspicion." -- The Sedition Act of 1798: "Fraught with the Most Serious Mischiefs" -- "The Reign of Witches" -- The Trial of Matthew Lyon -- The Trial of Thomas Cooper -- The Trial of James Callender -- "Persecutions and Personal Indignities" -- "We Are All Republicans; We Are All Federalists." -- "There Is No Such Thing as a False Idea." -- Spadre Bluffs. Chapter II - The Civil War: Mr. Lincoln's First Amendment : "Spotty Lincoln" -- "Abraham Africanus the First" -- Clement Vallandigham and General Order No. 38 -- Abraham Lincoln and the Freedom of Speech -- "Please Spare Me the Trouble." -- Despot, Liar, Usurper, Thief, Monster, Perjurer, Ignoramus, Swindler, Tyrant, Fiend, Butcher, and Pirate -- "Even at the Darkest Moments". CHAPTER III - WORLD WAR I: "CLEAR and Present Danger"? : A Mere "Slip of a Girl" -- War Opponents: Jane Addams, Eugene V. Debs, and Emma Goldman -- The Espionage Act of 1917 -- "A Divided, Fearful, and Intolerant Nation" -- The Legal Context -- Judges Bourquin, Amidon, and Hand -- The Triumph of "Bad Tendency" -- The Death of Free Speech: "What Is an Attempt?" -- "Antiwar Expression ... Had Little Chance." -- "The First Amendment Had No Hold on People's Minds." -- The Sedition Act of 1918: "When Did It Become War upon the American People?" -- The U.S. Supreme Court: "Clear and Present Danger"? -- The Transformation of Justice Holmes: "I Hope I Would Die for It." -- The Department of Justice: John Lord O'Brian and Alfred Bettman -- The Red Scare of 1919/1920 -- "The Maturer Judgment of Posterity" -- The Firebrand. CHAPTER IV - WORLD WAR II: "NOTHING TO FEAR"? : To Avoid the Mistakes of the Past -- The Dies Committee -- The Smith Act and J. Edgar Hoover -- "When Are You Going to Indict the Seditionists?" -- "The American Hitler" -- The Prosecution of William Dudley Pelley and the Sedition Act of 1798 -- The "Great Sedition Trial" of World War II -- "A Dark Chapter in Our Record of the Last World War" -- "No Official, High or Petty" -- Aliens and Citizens -- "A Jap's a Jap." -- The "Ugly Abyss of Racism" -- "We Now Know What We Should Have Known Then." -- Murphy, Jackson, and Biddle. CHAPTER V - THE COLD WAR: THE FIRST AMENDMENT IN EXTREMIS : "Boy Wonder" -- Reds -- The Red Menace, 1945/1950 -- The Red Menace, 1950/1954 -- "Absolute" Loyalty -- HUAC: "The Other Side of the Barricades" -- HUAC: "On the Trail of the Tarantula" -- The "Blond Spy Queen" and the Time Editor -- Tail Gunner Joe -- "So Reckless and So Cruel" -- Francis Biddle and John Lord O'Brian Revisited -- Dennis v. United States -- June 17, 1957 -- "Paralysis Rather than Protest" -- "How Would They Ever Learn Better?" CHAPTER VI - THE VIETNAM WAR: THE SUPREME COURT'S FIRST AMENDMENT : The Pacifist -- The Roots of the Antiwar Movement -- "I Don't Want Us to Get into That Dangerous Situation." -- "A Movement Cannot Grow without Repression." -- The 1968 Democratic National Convention: "A Scene from the Russian Revolution" -- Days of Rage, Kent State, and May Day -- "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority" and the Law of Conspiracy -- Radicalism on Trial: The Conspiracy Trial -- "Expose, Disrupt and Otherwise Neutralize" -- The Pentagon Papers -- The Supreme Court and Vietnam: "The Perfect Ending to a Long Story"? -- "The Government Has Misread the Times." -- Conclusion - The Secret of Liberty -- Can We Do Better? -- The War on Terrorism.