In calmer times
Subtitle: the Supreme Court and Red Monday
By: Arthur J. Sabin.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Communist trials -- United States.; Subversive activities -- United States -- History.; Communism -- United States -- History.
Description: "Arthur J. Sabin investigates the decisions after 1955 in which the U.S. Supreme Court repudiated its earlier endorsement of the political prosecutions that had engulfed the nation after World War II. Those prosecutions had sent hundreds to jail, reflecting a widespread belief that the nation was in serious danger of internal subversion and revolution.

He does so in the context of the larger political culture of the times - and also in the context of the history of political dissent in America, from World War I through the McCarthy era and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-246) and index.