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

by Christopher M. Finan and Christopher Finan

Book Overview

Christopher M. Finan received Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award for 2008. The award is presented for the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom. Eligible books were published between 2006... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807044288
• ISBN13: 9780807044285
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Lively and engaging account

Considering that most treatments of the subject are dry tomes, this is an account of the long efforts by many Americans to secure our Constitutional rights to free speech and free published accounts of ideas in the press. A real advantage of this book is its use of stories behind the legal cases that make it lively and engaging to read. At the same time, it is solid in its research and presentation of the legal merits of the cases. A great presentation of the subject for most readers.