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Freedom of speech : mightier than the sword
- Title
- Freedom of speech : mightier than the sword / David K. Shipler.
- Author
- Shipler, David K., 1942-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-9013 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 336 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "From the longtime New York Times reporter, best-selling author, and Pulitzer Prize winner-- an expansive, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America. David Shipler's recent best seller, The Working Poor, cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now, he turns his keen, illuminating focus to another endangered American ideal: freedom of speech. Through selected accounts of First Amendment invocation and infringement, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches' tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit; national security reporters using techniques more common in dictatorships to avoid leak prosecution; history teachers in Texas quietly navigating around a conservative curriculum to give students access to unapproved perspectives. Anchored in personal stories--sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar--but encompassing a theme as sweeping and essential as democracy itself, Freedom of Speech brilliantly reveals the triumphs and challenges of defining and protecting the boundaries of free expression in modern America"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-9013
- ISBN
- 9780307957320
- 0307957322
- LCCN
- 2014032127
- OCLC
- 2014032127
- Author
- Shipler, David K., 1942-
- Title
- Freedom of speech : mightier than the sword / David K. Shipler.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-9013
