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Defending the masses : a progressive lawyer's battles for free speech / Eric B. Easton.
Van Pelt Library KF373.R557 E27 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Easton, Eric B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roe, Gilbert E. (Gilbert Ernstein), 1865-1929.
- Roe, Gilbert E.
- Lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Freedom of speech.
- History.
- United States.
- Freedom of speech--United States--History--20th century.
- Progressivism (United States politics)--History--20th century.
- Progressivism (United States politics).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Amid the social turmoil of the Progressive Era and World War I, pacifists, anarchists, communists, feminists, and muckrakers were often sued, arrested, or censored for their outspoken views. Many turned to a Manhattan lawyer named Gilbert Roe to keep them in business and out of jail. Roe was the principal trial lawyer of the Free Speech League-a precursor of the American Civil Liberties Union. His cases involved prominent activists, including Emma Goldman, Lincoln Steffens, Margaret Sanger, Max Eastman. Upton Sinclair, John Reed, and Eugene Debs, as well as the socialist magazine The Masses and the New York City Teachers Union. A former law partner and longtime friend of Wisconsin's progressive senator Robert La Follette, Roe defended "Fighting Bob" when the Senate tried to expel him for opposing America's entry into World War I. In articulating Americans' right to free expression against charges of obscenity, libel, espionage, sedition, or conspiracy. Roe was rarely successfully in the courts. His greatest victory was the influential 1917 decision by Judge Learned Hand in The Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten. Roe's battles illuminate the evolution of free speech doctrine and practice in an era when it was under heavy assault. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Getting Started 12
- 2 The Muckrakers 30
- 3 The Anarchists 46
- 4 The Feminists 70
- 5 The Socialists 103
- 6 The Pacifists I 127
- 7 The Pacifists II 149
- 8 The Communists 167
- 9 Winding Down 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780299314002
- 0299314006
- OCLC:
- 985974555
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