The Capital Times [electronic resource] : a proudly radical newspaper's century-long fight for justice and for peace / Dave Zweifel and John Nichols.
"The Capital Times has always been a progressive newspaper, but even more important than its progressivism has been its embrace of the role of a free and independent press. Founded by William T. Evjue in 1917 to defend Robert M. La Follette's opposition to World War I, The Capital Times opposed mili...
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Madison, Wisconsin :
Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
2017.
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The Capital Times: A Proudly Radical Newspaper's Century Long Fight for Justice and for Peace |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- A daily proclamation of emancipation: A newspaper like no other
- When the hysteria rises: The Capital Times versus fear and an ism from Wisconsin
- You militarists and war profiteers be damned: A century of opposing the military-industrial complex
- "I want you to expose the bastards": The Capital Times versus pesticides and polluters
- Making Madison: Crusading for a city in harmony with its deepest values, its highest ideals, and with nature itself
- "There's a subtle type of discrimination here": A century of fighting for equal justice in Madison and Wisconsin
- The speeding locomotive of the 1960s: The game-changing decade for The Capital Times and Madison
- Which shall rule?: The "Sledgehammer" electoral politics of the Capital Times.