Free Speech, the People's Darling Privilege: Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History

by Michael Kent Curtis

Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege" refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through American history. Michael Kent Curtis focuses on struggles in which ordinary and extraordinary people, men and women, black and white, demanded and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325292
• ISBN13: 9780822325291
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"