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Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
Anthony Lewis
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Description for Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
Paperback. Tells the story of how 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. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH2; LAZ; LNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 243.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465018192
SKU
V9780465018192
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99-15
About Anthony Lewis
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis 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 has been a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and a visiting professor at the Universities of California, Illinois, Oregon, and Arizona, and, since 1983, the James ... Read more
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