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Download # Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland PDF by * Shirley A. Wiegand, Wayne A. Wiegand eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland It marks a fascinating and unnerving chapter in the history of Oklahoma and of the First Amendment. In today’s climate of shadowy foreign threatsalso full of unease about the way government curtails freedom in the name of protecting its citizensthe past speaks to the present. . After protests from labor unions, churches, publishers, academics, librarians, the American Civil Liberties Union, members of the literary world, and prominent individuals ranging from Woody Guthri
| Title | : | Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806138688 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
It marks a fascinating and unnerving chapter in the history of Oklahoma and of the First Amendment. In today’s climate of shadowy foreign threatsalso full of unease about the way government curtails freedom in the name of protecting its citizensthe past speaks to the present. . After protests from labor unions, churches, publishers, academics, librarians, the American Civil Liberties Union, members of the literary world, and prominent individuals ranging from Woody Guthrie to Eleanor Roosevelt, the convictions were overturned on appeal.Shirley A. All were detained incommunicado and many were held for months on unreasonably high bail. Wiegand share the compelling story of this important case for the first time. How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurityBetween the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American freedom.In a raid on the Progressive Bookstore in 1940, local offi
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The authors show that local media and politicians failed to foresee the national outrage the prosecutions would generate. The Wiegands conclude on a cautionary note, linking present-day antiterrorism fears to the anticommunist hysteria of 1940. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Shirley Wiegand and Wayne Wiegand, professors, respectively, of law and American studies, examine the social, legal and cultural currents surrounding the arrest, conviction and eventual vindication of Wood and the three other alleged Community Party members who were eventually tried. . From Publishers Weekly On August 17, 1940, Oklahoma City police raided the Progressive Book Store, seized thousands of books and pamphlets, and arrested the owner, Bob Wood, his wife and a dozen others who happened to be in the store, under state laws against distributing materials aimed at effecting industrial or political revolution. All rig
Shirley A. Wiegand is Professor of Law at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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