From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America

Name: From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
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ISBN: 9780807044292

ISBN-10: 0807044296

ISBN-13: 9780807044292

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christopher Finan

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The first comprehensive history of free speech in America for a general readership, from a respected historian and free speech activist A 2007 Book Sense Selection In this lively history of our most fundamental and perhaps most vulnerable right, Christopher Finan traces the lifeline of free speech from the War on Terror back to the turn of the last century. Finans dramatic review of such touchstones as the Scopes trial and Edward R. Murrows challenge to Joseph McCarthy are revelatory; many of his narratives are entirely fresh and have as much relevance to our postPatriot Act world as his final chapter on the twenty-first century. The story of the fight for free speech in times of war and…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Chris Finan is the president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the chair of the National Coalition Against Censorship. He is also the author of Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior. Finan lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Introduction



Ground Zero



Mob Rule, 1921-1930



Banned in Boston



The Court Takes a Hand



The Second Red Scare



The Fight for Artistic Freedom, 1945-1966



Let the Sunshine In



The Counterattack, 1970-2002



9/11


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index