Dean Strang

press release: 

Keep The Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW

In the first legal history of this federal trial, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats, and had a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department. As the trial unfolded, it became an exercise of raw force, raising serious questions about its legitimacy and revealing the fragility of a criminal justice system under great external pressure.