Zechariah Chafee, Jr. - Defender Of Liberty And Law

In the first biography of this distinguished American, Donald Smith portrays Chafee as temperamentally conservative, only accidentally a defender of radicals and a civil rights advocate. This perceptive intellectual biography brings to life the story of a scholar caught up in the dramatic political events of his time. Acknowledgments Contents ILLUSTRATIONS The Reluctant Civil Libertarian CHAPTER 1. The Early Years with Freedom of Speech O CHAPTER 2. Trials and Tribulations of a Justice Department Critic CHAPTER 3. A Rhode Island Man CHAPTER 4. Interest Jurisprudence and the First Amendment CHAPTER 5. A Public Service Theory of the Press CHAPTER 6. The View from the High Citadel CHAPTER 7. The Last of the Harvard Chancellors CHAPTER 8. Pushing a Stone up Capitol Hill CHAPTER 9. Safeguarding the Bill of Rights CHAPTER 10. Free Speech in the United Nations CHAPTER 11. "Pulling Asses out of Pits" and Other Cold War Exertions EPILOGUE: The Chafee Legacy A Note on the Chafee Papers Index