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Keep the wretches in order : America's biggest mass trial, the rise of the Justice Department, and the fall of the IWW / Dean A. Strang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780299323301
  • 0299323307
Subject(s):
Contents:
The Railroad Trestle -- One Big, and Different, Union -- Big Bill -- Ed -- Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur? -- Something Must Be Done -- The Color of Law -- Five Tons -- The Copper Trust Lawyer -- True Bill -- Twelve Good Men and True -- Van and the Squire -- A Gathering -- This Un-American Institution -- Polly-Foxing -- If Christ Came to Chicago -- Lives -- Argument -- The First Final Chapter -- Have You Anything to Say? -- The Train -- Doing Time -- Reaching for the Rich -- The Other Three -- The Seventh Circuit -- Consequences -- Bucky -- All Rise -- A Justice Department Emerges -- Endings.
Summary: In this sharp legal history of the largest mass trial in U.S. history (United States v. Haywood et al.), Dean Strang analyzes the fragility of the American criminal justice system and details the fascinating case that had a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deputize strikebreakers or call out the state militia, usually at the bidding of employers. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917, government and industry feared that strikes would endanger war production; a more coordinated, national strategy would be necessary. To prevent stoppages, the Department of Justice embarked on a sweeping new effort--replacing gunmen with lawyers. The department systematically targeted the nation's most radical and innovative union, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies, resulting in the largest mass trial in U.S. history.

In the first legal history of this federal trial, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats, and had a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department. As the trial unfolded, it became an exercise of raw force, raising serious questions about its legitimacy and revealing the fragility of a criminal justice system under great external pressure.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-303) and index.

The Railroad Trestle -- One Big, and Different, Union -- Big Bill -- Ed -- Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur? -- Something Must Be Done -- The Color of Law -- Five Tons -- The Copper Trust Lawyer -- True Bill -- Twelve Good Men and True -- Van and the Squire -- A Gathering -- This Un-American Institution -- Polly-Foxing -- If Christ Came to Chicago -- Lives -- Argument -- The First Final Chapter -- Have You Anything to Say? -- The Train -- Doing Time -- Reaching for the Rich -- The Other Three -- The Seventh Circuit -- Consequences -- Bucky -- All Rise -- A Justice Department Emerges -- Endings.

In this sharp legal history of the largest mass trial in U.S. history (United States v. Haywood et al.), Dean Strang analyzes the fragility of the American criminal justice system and details the fascinating case that had a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department.

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