| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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Book Review

Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West. By Clemens P. Work. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. x + 318 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Clemens P. Work departs from typical accounts of the suppression of speech during World War I, arguing that a full understanding of the era's undemocratic excesses must begin in Montana, birthplace of what would become the national Sedition Act of 1918. Montana politicians and industrialists took advantage of the war to pass legislation intended to stamp out labor radicalism, and in elevating their agenda to the national stage they "influenced national events to a considerable degree" (p. 3). In the end, wartime repression provoked a reaction, "a silver lining, a dawn to the darkness"; Americans and their courts began to debate the issue of free speech in new ways, accepting "a deeper and broader understanding of such rights" (pp. 3–4).

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