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Anita Whitney, Louis Brandeis, and the First Amendment
Haig A. Bosmajian
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Hardback. Num Pages: 203 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GBC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; LAQG; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
The lives of suffragist-communist-socialite Anita Whitney and Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis converged in the first quarter of the twentieth century when her 1920 conviction for violating the state's Criminal Syndicalism Act led to Brandeis's now classic Whitney v. California concurring opinion. It was during the Red Scare of 1919-20 that Whitney was arrested, tried, and convicted for her participation in the founding of the Communist Labor Party in California; seven years later, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld her conviction, with Brandeis writing a concurring opinion (which read like a dissent) in which he warned against the politics of fear, ... Read more
The lives of suffragist-communist-socialite Anita Whitney and Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis converged in the first quarter of the twentieth century when her 1920 conviction for violating the state's Criminal Syndicalism Act led to Brandeis's now classic Whitney v. California concurring opinion. It was during the Red Scare of 1919-20 that Whitney was arrested, tried, and convicted for her participation in the founding of the Communist Labor Party in California; seven years later, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld her conviction, with Brandeis writing a concurring opinion (which read like a dissent) in which he warned against the politics of fear, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
Number of Pages
203
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611474787
SKU
V9781611474787
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About Haig A. Bosmajian
Haig Bosmajian is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington.
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