The Tolerant Society

by Lee C. Bollinger

Book Overview

The First Amendment provides Americans with a far broader protection of free speech than that available in any other Western democracy, Lee Bollinger notes, and yet other democracies are not seen as significantly less open or more restrictive that the United States. Why do Americans guarantee people the right to advocate the overthrow of the government or advance racist or genocidal ideas? Why, for example, protect the right of neo-Nazis to march...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195040007
• ISBN13: 9780195040005
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"