Download or read book Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Defender of Liberty and Law written by Donald L. Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first biography of this distinguished American, Donald Smith portrays Chafee as temperamentally conservative, only accidentally a defender of radicals and a civil rights advocate. This perceptive intellectual biography brings to life the story of a scholar caught up in the dramatic political events of his time.