The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise

by Laura Weinrib

Book Overview

In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills for industrial interests. But by the Second World War, prominent figures in both camps celebrated the judiciary for protecting freedom of speech. In this strikingly original history, Laura Weinrib illustrates how a surprising coalition of lawyers and activists made judicial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674545710
• ISBN13: 9780674545717
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"