Oswald Garrison Villard was unquestionably the most energetic, outspoken, and courageous liberal editor in America during the first half of the twentieth century. During his thirty-five-year-long stewardship of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, Villard often defined the national liberal agenda and eagerly embraced every national controversy of any significance, with a genius, one social commentator remarked, for selecting the unpopular side of every issue. He campaigned tirelessly for the emancipation of minorities, blacks, and women; energetically resisted United States entry into the Spanish-American War and the two world wars; defiantly defended dissidents and conscientious objectors against political persecution during the xenophobia and nationalism of the war years; railed ceaselessly against conscription, political corruption, tariffs, and monopolies; and valiantly championed pacifism, civil liberties, prison reforms, and the right of self-determination for colonized peoples--indeed his activities covered the full spectrum of the most liberal reform movements of...