Free Speech for Radicals. Enlarged edition.
An Important Progressive-Era Defense of Free Speech Schroeder, Theodore. Free Speech for Radicals. Published by the Free Speech League. Riverside, CT: Hillacre Bookhouse, 1916. viii, 206 pp. Original buckram, black-stamped title to spine, deckle fore-edges. Moderate shelfwear and soiling, spine darkened, rear hinge starting. Title page printed in red and black. Light toning to interior, some signatures unopened. $85. * Second edition, enlarged, the final edition of this book. First published in 1912, this collection of essays argues for an expansive and inclusive interpretation of freedom of speech, especially that concerning radical and unpopular opinions. Schroeder asserts that suppressing any viewpoint, no matter how controversial, endangers the principles of a free society. The author argues that free speech can be limited only when it is directly and immediately connected to an "actual material injury." Schroeder, a lawyer and a founder of the Free Speech League, was a key figure in defending free expression in the years before the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). His work was informed by his legal defenses of anarchists, birth control advocates like Margaret Sanger and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
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