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Freedom for the thought that we hate : a biography of the First Amendment / Anthony Lewis.
More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution. In this book, the story of how the right of free expression evolved along with our nation makes a compelling case for the adaptability of our constitution. Although Americans have gleefully and sometimes outrageously exercised their right to free speech since before the nation's founding, the Supreme Court did not begin to recognize this right until 1919. Freedom of speech and the press as we know it today is surprisingly recent. The author tells us how these rights were created, revealing a story of hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780465039173
- ISBN: 0465039170
- ISBN: 9780465018192
- ISBN: 046501819X
- Physical Description: xv, 221 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Beginnings -- 'Odious or contemptible' -- "As all life is an experiment" -- Defining freedom -- Freedom and privacy -- A press privilege? -- Fear itself -- 'Another's lyric' -- 'Vagabonds and outlaws' -- Thoughts that we hate -- Balancing interests -- Freedom of thought. |
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| Subject: | Freedom of speech > United States Freedom of the press > United States |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Baker County Library | 342.730853 .L673f 2007 (Text) | 37814003200475 | NON-FICTION | Available | - | ||
| Baker Huntington Branch | 342.730853 .L673f 2007 (Text) | 37814003230837 | NON-FICTION | Available | - | ||
| Columbia Gorge Community College Library | POLITICAL SCIENCE LEWIS 2007 (Text) | 33892002457589 | Main Collection | Available | - |
