LEADER 03779nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910953154203321 005 20251116234900.0 010 $a0-299-22893-2 024 7 $a2027/heb08793 035 $a(CKB)2670000000016011 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344124 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11264510 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344124 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10306762 035 $a(PQKB)10517758 035 $a(OCoLC)550648583 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12285 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444892 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348731 035 $a(OCoLC)932318071 035 $a(dli)HEB08793 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011661690 035 $a(Perlego)4442274 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444892 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000016011 100 $a20080327d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnsafe for democracy $eWorld War I and the U.S. Justice Department's covert campaign to suppress dissent /$fWilliam H. Thomas, Jr 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2008 215 $axi, 251 p. $cill 225 1 $aStudies in American thought and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-299-22896-7 311 08$a0-299-22890-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSetting the stage -- Methods and ideology -- Policing the clergy -- Policing the left -- Policing Wisconsin -- Vigilantism. 330 8 $aDuring the First World War it was the task of the U.S. Department of Justice, using the newly passed Espionage Act and its later Sedition Act amendment, to prosecute and convict those who opposed America's entry into the conflict. In Unsafe for Democracy, historian William H. Thomas Jr. shows that the Justice Department did not stop at this official charge but went much further-paying cautionary visits to suspected dissenters, pressuring them to express support of the war effort, or intimidating them into silence. At times going undercover, investigators tried to elicit the unguarded comments of individuals believed to be a threat to the prevailing social order. In this massive yet largely secret campaign, agents cast their net wide, targeting isolationists, pacifists, immigrants, socialists, labor organizers, African Americans, and clergymen. The unemployed, the mentally ill, college students, schoolteachers, even schoolchildren, all might come under scrutiny, often in the context of the most trivial and benign activities of daily life. Delving into numerous reports by Justice Department detectives, Thomas documents how, in case after case, they used threats and warnings to frighten war critics and silence dissent. This early government crusade for wartime ideological conformity, Thomas argues, marks one of the more dubious achievements of the Progressive Era-and a development that resonates in the present day. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians "Recommended for all libraries."-Frederic Krome, Library Journal 410 0$aStudies in American thought and culture. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xProtest movements$zUnited States 606 $aPeace movements$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aFreedom of speech$zUnited States 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xProtest movements 615 0$aPeace movements$xGovernment policy 615 0$aFreedom of speech 676 $a940.3/1 700 $aThomas$b William H.$cJr$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953154203321 996 $aUnsafe for democracy$92243923 997 $aUNINA