Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. 1. The War Powers at the Armistice: Where the Will Meets the Way 1
5. 2. Experiments in Socialism: Federal Control of the Rails and the Wires 26
6. 3. Wartime Prohibition: “A Freakish Legislative Child” 60
7. 4. The High Cost of Living: Recipe for Revolution 94
8. 5. The War on Radicalism: Prosecuting the American Heretic 133
9. 6. Censorship and the “Cowed Mind”: Perpetuating the Aura of Repression 162
10. 7. Judicial Review: Its Hour Come Round at Last 191
11. 8. The Tug-of-War over Rent Control: A Futile Exercise in Defiance 223
12. 9. Preserving the Legacy: The Timing of Judicial Intervention 254
13. Abbreviations. Notes. Index
14. Abbreviations 278
15. Notes 279
16. Index 359