Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland

by Shirley A. Wiegand and Wayne A. Wiegand

Book Overview

How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity

Between the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American freedom.

In a raid on the Progressive Bookstore in 1940, local officials seized thousands of books and pamphlets and arrested twenty customers and proprietors. All were detained incommunicado and many were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806138688
• ISBN13: 9780806138688
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"