Make No Law The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

Name: Make No Law The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
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ISBN: 9780679739395

ISBN-10: 0679739394

ISBN-13: 9780679739395

Edition: 1992

Authors: Anthony Lewis

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The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights protests. The centuries of legal precedent behind the Sullivan case and the U.S. Supreme Court's historic reversal of the original verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping and wonderfully readable book by the Pulitzer Prize -- winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. It is our best account yet of a case that redefined what newspapers -- and…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.97" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.682




Heed Their Rising Voices



Reaction in Montgomery



Separate and Unequal



The Trial



Silencing the Press



The Meaning of Freedom



The Sedition Act



World War I



Holmes and Brandeis, Dissenting



“The Vitalizing Liberties”



To the Supreme Court



“There Never Is a Time”



May It Please the Court



“The Central Meaning of the First Amendment”



What It Meant



Inside the Court



Public and Private



“The Dancing Has Stopped”



Back to the Drawing Board



Envoi



First Draft of Justice Brennan’s Opinion inNew York Times Co. v. Sullivan



Opinions inNew York Times Co. v. Sullivanby Justices Brennan, Black, and Goldberg