Resumen de Editor, Publisher, Citizen, Socialist: Victor L. Berger and His Milwaukee Leader
From 1911 to 1929, Victor Berger edited the Milwaukee Leader, a Socialist Party daily newspaper. Berger advocated a peaceful transition to socialism via the ballot box. When the Leader opposed World War I, it lost its mailing privileges and Berger faced prison. This article examines the daily operations of the Leader and Berger’s belief that a free press was crucial in fostering socialism. It argues that Berger’s temperament and his business methods were unsuited to the capital-intensive world of daily newspapering in the 1920s.
