Pound

American poet Ezra Pound was indicted, arrested, and imprisoned for treason-without even being tried, let alone convicted. He was sentenced indefinitely to a prison-hospital in Washington, D.C., where his health, mental and physical, was challenged daily. The year was 1945, and the war was just a signing of a peace treaty away from being over. Because World War Two was considered the "good war," many famous and powerful Americans vilified Pound and clamored for his execution. Thirteen...
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American poet Ezra Pound was indicted, arrested, and imprisoned for treason-without even being tried, let alone convicted. He was sentenced indefinitely to a prison-hospital in Washington, D.C., where his health, mental and physical, was challenged daily. The year was 1945, and the war was just a signing of a peace treaty away from being over. Because World War Two was considered the "good war," many famous and powerful Americans vilified Pound and clamored for his execution. Thirteen years later the charge was dropped and Pound was released, at age 72.In 'POUND' author Alan Navarre ('The Devil's Chaplain'), endeavours to give Ezra Pound-and his adversaries-the trial they deserved in 1945. Had Pound committed treason? Was he mentally unfit to stand trial? Had his lawyer been compromised? Psychiatrists and judges incompetent, biased, suborned?