Free Speech Bibliography Including Every Discovered Attitude Toward...
SCHROEDER, Theodore. Free Speech Bibliography: Including Every Discovered Attitude Toward the Problem Covering Every Method of Transmitting Ideas and Abridging Their Promulgation upon Every Subject-Matter. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1922. [vii], 247 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN: 9781584770497 / 158477049X Binding: Fine, Smyth-sewn light blue cloth hardcover. Condition: New. Price: $34.95 Description: A comprehensive, annotated bibliography organized logically by subject matter. It includes a thorough author index and covers major thematic categories such as:Works issued before 1800The Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798 (printed as 1768 in the text)Sedition, Suppressed Publications, and War MotivesReligious, Economic, Personal, and Sex Motives (featuring sub-categories like labor unionists, anarchists, heresy, theater, and art). Historical Note: Theodore Schroeder (1864-1953) was an influential civil liberties lawyer and a founding member of the Free Speech League, the immediate precursor to the ACLU. This bibliography remains a foundational reference work for legal historians studying the evolution of First Amendment theory. Precursor to the ACLU: Theodore Schroeder co-founded the Free Speech League in 1902 alongside luminaries like Lincoln Steffens and Emma Goldman. The League was the primary defender of free expression in the U.S. until the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) took over the mantle in 1920. The "Sex Motive" Pioneer: Schroeder was unique for his era because he vehemently argued that "obscenity" was entirely subjective and that sex-related speech deserved complete First Amendment protection. His inclusion of the "sex motive" and "suppressed publications" sections in this 1922 bibliography reflects his groundbreaking psychological approach to legal defense. The Definitive Baseline: Published in 1922, this book captures the absolute state of civil liberties literature immediately following World War I-a period marked by intense government censorship, the Red Scare, and the passage of the 1917 Espionage Act. It serves as a time capsule of everything written on free speech up to the birth of modern First Amendment jurisprudence.
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