Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Blacklisting during the Cold War
Chapter 3: Lawyers and the Micro Environments in American Law Firms
during the
1930s to the 1960s
Chapter 4: San Francisco and the Bay Area during the 1930s through
the 1960s
Chapter 5: Harry Bridges
Chapter 6: George R. Andersen
Chapter 7: Norman Leonard
Chapter 8: Richard Gladstein
Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Creation of Legal Culture
Epilogue
References
Appendix 1: Chronology of the Gladstein Firm
Appendix 2: Excerpt from George Andersen’s FBI file.
Appendix 3: Excerpt from Norman Leonard’s FBI file.
Appendix 4: Excerpt from Richard Gladstein’s FBI file.
Colin Wark is associate professor of criminology and sociology at
Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
John F. Galliher is professor of sociology at Missouri University.
Progressive Lawyers Under Siege recovers a long-hidden history of
McCarthy era efforts by the FBI to investigate, harass, and
intimidate progressive lawyers. Wark and Galliher take us inside
the social and legal worlds of McCarthyism through a fine grained
analysis of FBI files that targeted a high-profile progressive law
firm in San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s. The authors paint a
vivid picture of the anti-Semitic, anti-labor, and racially
motivated efforts by the FBI to monitor and repress attorneys
working on behalf of those fighting for economic and racial justice
in an age of anti-Communist hysteria. Progressive Lawyers Under
Siege, is no mere coda to history. In light of U.S. government
efforts to penalize attorneys who represented suspected terrorists
after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequent revelations
of widespread electronic surveillance of the U.S. population, this
book offers a powerful cautionary tale about the lengths federal
law enforcement will go to repress those who would provide legal
counsel to people the government believes (often wrongly) to be
enemies of the state.
*Raymond J. Michalowski, Northern Arizona University*
It was the time of brave, principled lawyers who offered
magnificent representation for isolated individuals
against the massed resources of the state. For starters we
only have to look at the determined defense of Owen Lattimore, "the
#1 Soviet spy," according to the unlamented Sen. McCarthy by
Thurman Arnold and Abe Fortas. This must-read book offers painful
reminders of the failure of prominent lawyers against the
abusers of our Rule of Law.
*Stanley Kutler*
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