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Book SynopsisFrom 1917 the US Department of Justice systematically targeted the US's most radical union, the Industrial Workers of the World, resulting in the largest mass trial in US history. In the first legal history of the trial, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats.
Trade ReviewDean Strang tells a great story of America's struggle with fear and injustice a century ago while asking us to consider, 'What is the story of ourselves that we write today?' American workers still fight what the Wobblies fought in 1918, as the Justice Department during WWI overreached in ways similar to our current 'war on terror.' Dean is a great attorney and a gifted writer, borrowing lessons from the past to help guide our future." - Alec Baldwin
"Strang humanizes this shameful chapter in our nation's history. With empathy and verve, he tells the story of abuse of executive power, a partial and wacky federal judge (and autocratic first baseball commissioner), and many ruined lives of working men and women." - Brad Snyder, author of
The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism
