Introduction; The Rebel Girl; Fellow Workers and Friends; Harvest Stiffs and Shingle Weavers; The Hymn of Hate; Fire in the Mountain; Patriotism and Propaganda; Up in Smoke; Standing Against the Mob; On the Wings of a Snowstorm; The Pot Boils Over; Liberty Can Wait; o Possible Means of Escape; ""Good Night with Mr Damned Wilson""; The Wine Salesman's Tale; A Contest of Wills; ""The Agitation of the Billows""; The Dawn of Free Speech; Index.
Clemens P. Work is director of graduate studies, School of Journalism, University of Montana, Missoula.
An important contribution to the literature of the history of free
speech in America. No future study of sedition laws could hope to
be complete without drawing on this well researched and well
written work. Clem Work has made his mark, and what a marvelous
mark it is!
This is history at its exciting, human best. Clem Work tells the
little-known story of how Americans were punished for what they
said during World War I: imprisoned, brutalized, lynched. It is a
crucial part of the American struggle for freedom of speech.
""Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American
West" is a formidable piece of scholarship, a fine and readable
history on the wax and wane of free speech, our ability as
Americans to say what we believe. Shot through with contemporary
resonances, Work's book would make an ideal present for anyone with
the least bit of political leanings."
"Clemens P. Work's excellent new book, "Darkest Before Dawn:
Sedition and Free Speech in the American West" describes in
absorbing detail one of the darkest eras in Montana history in
which dissenting voices were stifled."
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