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Lawrence Dennis and Maximilian St. George
Softcover book. 500 pages
ISBN: 0-939484-20-X / 9998685141
Stock Number: 0616

An outstanding analysis of the most sensational American political trial of World War II.

In 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt and his administration tried to mount a Soviet-style show trial of critics of his pro-war policies. Using “guilt by association" and "conspiracy" tactics, this was perhaps the most sinister US government threat to constitutional freedom in the past century. What the White House hoped would be a spectacular legal and public relations blow against its critics quickly turned into a legal farce and ended as a fiasco for the Roosevelt administration and a victory for the cause of free speech and civil rights.

De­fendant Dennis and trial lawyer St. George present a brilliant, lucidly reasoned critique of the Roosevelt administration's most daring attempt to throttle non-interventionist and anti-Communist dissent through court action. The authors establish that the government never had a substantive case, that the defendants had not broken any laws, that the evidence presented by the federal prosecutors did not fit the law or the charge, and that no law existed that penalized the utterances, writings and propaganda activities of the accused. The authors also spotlight the sinister internationalist and anti-freedom forces behind the trial.