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This work tells the stories of some of America's most famous and colorful labor, socialist, and peace leaders.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Howard Zinn Introduction Background to the Sedition Laws and Their Use During the World War I Era The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and 1918: Then and Now The Selective Service Act Inside Golgotha: The Prison Experience of the World War I Sedition Act Inmates and Conscientious Objectors The Convictions Prison Discipline A Transfer to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane A Death The Most Indolent Man at Leavenworth Military Justice Isolation Relief from the Psychopathic Ward Release The Prisoners Federal Espionage and Sedition Act Prisoners State Anti-Sedition and Criminal Syndicalism Prisoners Political Prisoners Who Died While Incarcerated in Federal, Military, or State Prisons Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

STEPHEN M. KOHN is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP, and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the National Whistleblower Center. He is the former Director of Corporate Litigation for the Government Accountability Project. Nationally recognized for his scholarship and litigation on behalf of whistleblowers, Kohn in 1985 authored the first legal text on whistleblower law. He is the author of Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law (Quorum, 2000).

Reviews

"What Stephen Kohn has done is to document what happened, with the kind of specific detail--names, places, punishments, the feelings of prisoners, the rationales of wardens and politicians--that brings history alive in the most immediate way, that goes behind statistics to individual human beings. He has been able to do this by an extraordinary feat of research, extracting from a reluctant government the records that are published for the first time in this book."-from the foreword by Howard Zinn Professor Emeritus Boston University

?Stephen M. Kohn is a beacon on a dark time in American history, as the legal foundations were laid for subversion of the Constitution in the name of pacifists who dared to organize or even think out loud. Nuclear resisters: this is a warning!?-The Nuclear Resister

"Stephen M. Kohn is a beacon on a dark time in American history, as the legal foundations were laid for subversion of the Constitution in the name of pacifists who dared to organize or even think out loud. Nuclear resisters: this is a warning!"-The Nuclear Resister