The First Amendment under fire : America's radicals, Congress, and the courts / Milton Cantor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Nationalism and war : the casualties -- Post-war harvest : "traitors to America" -- Judicial tolerance of intolerance -- The First Amendment : crucible years -- Freedom of expression in flux : the twenties -- The thirties : evolving toward the First Amendment -- Stare decisis : old responses to new crises -- The cold war enters the courtroom -- The fifties : the left under assault -- The Warren court : the cloudy judicial landscape -- "Red Monday" -- "Exposure purely for the sake of exposure" (Brennan in Baren blatt) -- Requiem for precedents -- Conclusion.