Controversies and litigation about free speech, often involving sex reformers and labor unions, preceded the Espionage Act of 1917.

It should be of interest to people who follow free speech and civil liberties issues as well as people involved in women's and labor history.

Introduction
1. The lost tradition of libertarian radicalism
2. The IWW free speech fights
3. The courts and free speech
4. Legal scholarship
5. Free speech in progressive social thought
6. The Espionage Act
7. World War I and the creation of the modern Civil Liberties Movement
8. Holmes, Brandeis, and the judicial transformation of the First Amendment after World War I
9. Epilogue: current parallels to prewar progressive thought.