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Unsafe for Democracy: World War I and the U.S. Justice Department's Cov…

by Thomas, William H.

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During World War I 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.…