Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment - Softcover

Lewis, Anthony

 
9780465018192: Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
Softcover
ISBN 10: 046501819X ISBN 13: 9780465018192
Verlag: Basic Books, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

From one of the most influential journalists of the last half century, an essential explanation and defense of a foundational American idea: free speech

More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordinary freedom results not from America's culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment.

In Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis describes how our free-speech rights were created in five distinct areas: political speech, artistic expression, libel, commercial speech, and unusual forms of expression such as T-shirts and campaign spending. It is a story of hard choices, heroic judges, and the fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face to face with one of America's great founding ideas.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anthony Lewis (1927-2013), a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page from 1969 through 2001. In addition to his long and distinguished career with the Times, Mr. Lewis was, starting in 1983, the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He was the author of two other books, Gideon's Trumpet and Make No Law.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
046501819X
ISBN 13 
9780465018192
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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