ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, SR., “FREE SPEECH AND THE RIGHT OF CONGRESS TO DECLARE THE OBJECTS OF THE WAR,” (6 OCTOBER 1917)

Readings

Alexander, Holmes M. The Famous Five. New York: The Bookmailer, 1958.

Amchan, Arthur J. The Kaiser’s Senator: Robert M. La Follette’s Alleged Disloyalty during World War I. Amchan Publications, 1994.

Amchan, Arthur. Why Did America Fight?: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Robert La Follette’s Battle over American Intervention in the First World War. United States: Amchan Publications: 2014.

Barton, Albert O. La Follette’s Winning of Wisconsin (1894-1904). Des Moines: The Homestead Co., 1922.

Brøndal, Jørn, “The Ethnic and Racial Side of Robert M. La Follette,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10 (2011): 340-353.

Burgchardt, Carl R. “Apology as Attack: La Follette vs. Robinson on Freedom of Speech,” in Halford R. Ryan, ed., Oratorical Encounters: Selected Studies and Sources of Twentieth-Century Political Accusations and Apologies (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), 1-16.

—. Robert M. La Follette, Sr.: The Voice of Conscience. New York: Greenwood Press: 1992.

Cos, Grant C., and Brian J. Snee. “Robert M. La Follette and the Rhetoric of Free Speech.”  Free Speech Yearbook 39 (2001): 26-33.

Drake, Richard. The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.

Garraty, John A., “Robert La Follette: The Promise Unfulfilled” American Heritage 13 (1962): 76–79, 84–88.

Greenbaum, Fred. Robert Marion La Follette. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1975.

Kann, Bob. Bell and Bob La Follette: Partners in Politics. WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2008.

La Follette, Belle C. and Fola La Follette. Robert M. La Follette. Volume 1 and 2. New York: Macmillan, 1953.

La Follette, Robert M. The Making of America. New York: Arno Press, 1906.

—. La Follette’s Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences. Madison, WI: The Robert M. La Follette Co., 1913.

Lahman, Carroll P. “Robert M. La Follette,” in A History and Criticism of American Public Address, vol. 2, Ed. William Norwood Brigance (New York: Russell and Russell, 1943).

Lawler, Peter A. “Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.,” in American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources,” Ed. Bernard K. Duffy and Halford R. Ryan (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987).

Maxwell, Robert S. La Follette and the Rise of the Progressives in Wisconsin. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1956.

—, ed. La Follette. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969.

Thelen, David P. The Early Life of Robert M. La Follette, 1855-1884. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1966.

—. Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.

Torelle, Ellen, comp. Robert M. La Follette as Revealed in His Speeches and Writings. Madison, WI: The Robert M. La Follette Co., 1920.

Unger, Nancy C. Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Weisberger, Bernard A. The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

 

Audio-Visual Materials

“America in the 20th Century: The Progressive Era.” Chicago, IL: Media Rich Communications, 2004.

The Great Courses. “America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Series.” Kanopy Films, 2015.

 

On-Line Resources

“Fighting Bob La Follette Film 1924.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5plfw9dV24

Honeywell, Alice. La Follette and His Legacy (Madison, WI: Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, 1995), 1-20.

http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/images/publications/otherpublications/LaFollette/La%20Follette%20and%20His%20Legacy.pdf

Wisconsin Historical Society. “The Career of Robert M. La Follette.”  http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-035/