Victor Berger and the Promise of Constructive Socialism, 1910-1920
Author | : Sally Miller |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973-05-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0837162645 |
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Author | : Sally Miller |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973-05-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0837162645 |
Author | : Michael E. Stevens |
Publisher | : Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2016-02-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0870207776 |
The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger provide an insider's view of congressional, labor and party politics as well as a glimpse into the marriage and family life of a prominent Wisconsin couple. Victor Berger helped create a well-organized political machine in Milwaukee that engineered his election to the U.S. House of Representatives six times and controlled the mayor's office for almost 50 years. His wife, Meta, an activist in her own right, served as a member of the Milwaukee school board and of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, and vigorously advocated on behalf of woman suffrage and peace. Mixing commentary on public affairs with family news and love notes, The Family Letters demonstrate how Victor and Meta were both interested observers as well as actors who sought to shape events in early twentieth century America.
Author | : Eric Arnesen |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 1734 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0415968267 |
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Author | : Anthony V. Esposito |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135640017 |
Examining the propaganda literature issued by the Socialist Party before World War I, this study investigates how the party shaped its appeal to an American audience. With the rise of an anti-monopoly reform movement after 1908 that rejected all notions of class, and socialist success in some city elections after 1910, the party confronted growing liberal strength. By 1912-13 this confrontation affected the ideological appeal and unity of the party by pitting the loyalties of class and citizenship against each other. By the time the U.S. entered WWI, the idea of class had become taboo in American politics, driving a wedge between radicals and reformers that persists until today. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Connecticut, 1992; revised with new preface and index)
Author | : Eric Thomas Chester |
Publisher | : Monthly Review Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2020-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1583678689 |
A comprehensive history of the National Civil Liberties Bureau's role in the anti-war movement during the First World War World War I, given all the rousing “Over-There” songs and in-the-trenches films it inspired, was, at its outset, surprisingly unpopular with the American public. As opposition increased, Woodrow Wilson’s presidential administration became intent on stifling antiwar dissent. Wilson effectively silenced the National Civil Liberties Bureau, forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union. Presidential candidate Eugene Debs was jailed, and Deb’s Socialist Party became a prime target of surveillance operations, both covert and overt. Drastic as these measures were, more draconian measures were to come. In his absorbing new book, Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I, Eric Chester reveals that out of this turmoil came a heated public discussion on the theory of civil liberties – the basic freedoms that are, theoretically, untouchable by any of the three branches of the U.S. government. The famous “clear and present danger” argument of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the “balance of conflicting interest” theory of law professor Zechariah Chafee, for example, evolved to provide a rationale for courts to act as a limited restraint on autocratic actions of the government. But Chester goes further, to examine an alternative theory: civil liberties exist as absolute rights, rather than being dependent on the specific circumstances of each case. Over the years, the debate about the right to dissent has intensified and become more necessary. This fascinating book explains why, a century after the First World War – and in the era of Trump – we need to know about this.
Author | : Robert M. Lichtman |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2022-01-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0700632727 |
In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers a timely investigation of the vital constitutional issues, debated since the nation’s founding, concerning permissible and impermissible grounds for excluding a member-elect or expelling a member from Congress. Barred by Congress begins with an exhaustive review of the numerous congressional exclusion and expulsion cases in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before focusing on the stories of the last three members-elect to be excluded from Congress: a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American—each an outsider in American politics—excluded notwithstanding election by the voters. Lichtman illuminates each of these three remarkable individuals with a detailed biographical sketch. Brigham H. Roberts was a Utah Mormon whose exclusion from the House of Representatives in 1900 was fueled by a nationwide anti-Mormon campaign waged by William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper empire, a controversy centered on the issue of polygamy. Victor L. Berger, a Socialist Party leader and editor of an antiwar Milwaukee newspaper during World War I, was elected to the House despite the efforts of the Wilson administration to derail his campaign by indicting him under the Espionage Act; he was excluded in 1919 and again in 1920. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the House of Representatives from 1945 until his exclusion in 1967. In Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court ruled that Powell’s exclusion by the House violated the Constitution, a decision that, a half century later, remains established law but still does not provide complete assurance that the people will be able to (in Alexander Hamilton’s words) “choose whom they please to govern them.”
Author | : Stephen L. Vaughn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2007-12-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135880204 |
The Encyclopedia of American Journalism explores the distinctions found in print media, radio, television, and the internet. This work seeks to document the role of these different forms of journalism in the formation of America's understanding and reaction to political campaigns, war, peace, protest, slavery, consumer rights, civil rights, immigration, unionism, feminism, environmentalism, globalization, and more. This work also explores the intersections between journalism and other phenomena in American Society, such as law, crime, business, and consumption. The evolution of journalism's ethical standards is discussed, as well as the important libel and defamation trials that have influenced journalistic practice, its legal protection, and legal responsibilities. Topics covered include: Associations and Organizations; Historical Overview and Practice; Individuals; Journalism in American History; Laws, Acts, and Legislation; Print, Broadcast, Newsgroups, and Corporations; Technologies.
Author | : Hector Berlioz |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 1932-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780486215631 |
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
Author | : Robert H. Wiebe |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226895635 |
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: The American Exception 1820s-1890s1. Democracy2. The Barbarians3. The People4. In or OutPart Two: Metamorphosis 1890s-1920s5. Sinking the Lower Class6. Raising Hierarchies7. Dissolving the PeoplePart Three: Modern Democracy 1920s-1990s8. The Individual9. The State10. Internal WarsConclusionNotesSpecial Debts and Further ReadingsIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Dale Casper |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2017-10-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1351216643 |
Originally published in 1985 Urban America Examined, is a comprehensive bibliography examining the urban environment of the United States. The book is split into sections corresponding to the four main geographic regions of the country, looking respectively at research conducted in the East, South, Midwest and West. The book provides a broad cross section of sources, from books to periodicals and covers a range of interdisciplinary issues such as social theory, urbanization, the growth of the city, ethnicity, socialism and US politics.