Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

by Richard Kluger

Book Overview

The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning--the government of the United States was the first to legalize free speech and a free press as fundamental rights. But when the British began colonizing the New World, strict censorship was the iron rule of the realm; any words, true or false, that were thought to disparage the government were judged a criminally subversive--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393245462
• ISBN13: 9780393245462
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"