Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Idaho’s past—both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through. They include:

Ezra Pound, native Idahoan and celebrated poet, who followed the slippery slope of socialis...