Griffin’s Reviews > American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis > Status Update

"Within less than a year after the passage of the Espionage Act, 'the Cardinal' had deemed 44 American periodicals entirely 'unmailable,' a total that would soon include some 30 more...When the publisher of one banned paper asked for an explanation, a Post Office official told him, 'If the reasons are not obvious to you or anyone else having the welfare of this country at heart, it will be useless...to present them."

"A man in Texas went to prison for saying, 'I wish Wilson was in hell.' The judge called this a murder threat because the president 'could not be in the state called hell until life was terminated.'"