Silencing "Fighting Bob": The Attack on Antiwar Progressives During the First World War, by Eric T. Chester, NYU Press, 216 pages, $24
When Sen. Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. opposed American entry into the Great War, the Wisconsin Republican warned that intervention abroad would carry consequences at home. What he did not anticipate was that he himself would be the target of a government-organized propaganda campaign designed to end his political career.
