Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment - Rilegato

Lewis, Anthony

 
9780394587745: Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

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Chronicles the landmark case which changed the interpretation of the First Amendment and explores the meaning and intent of writings by Madison, Jefferson, and others on free speech

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endment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights protests. The centuries of legal precedent behind the Sullivan case and the U.S. Supreme Court's historic reversal of the original verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping and wonderfully readable book by the Pulitzer Prize -- winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. It is our best account yet of a case that redefined what newspapers -- and ordinary citizens -- can print or say.


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9780679739395: Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

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ISBN 10:  0679739394 ISBN 13:  9780679739395
Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992
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