Money and Free Speech: Campaign Finance Reform and the Courts

by Melvin I. Urofsky

Money greases the wheels of American politics from the local level to the White House. In the 2004 presidential campaign, President George W. Bush alone raised nearly $400 million in private and public funds--nearly twenty times the combined total raised by John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960--to defeat challenger John F. Kerry, further fueling anxiety over the power of money to dictate political results.

Melvin Urofsky, one of our nation's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700614036
• ISBN13: 9780700614035
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"