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A Question of Sedition: The Federal Government's Investigation of the Black Press During World War II

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"A Question of Sedition is a book that students of the Roosevelt years and indeed anyone who cares about the First Amendment right of free speech will want to read. It is the first book to examine the attempt by the Roosevelt Administration to use its special war-time sedition powers to suppress the major black newspapers during World War II. Drawing on interviews and pages of government documents, many recently declassified, Washburn describes how Attorney General Francis Biddle stood in the way of Roosevelt, despite ...

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A Question of Sedition: The Federal Government's Investigation of the Black Press During World War II 1986, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195039849

Hardcover