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More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution. In Lewis's telling, the story of how the right of free expression evolved along with our nation makes a compelling case for the adaptability of our constitution. Although Americans have gleefully and sometimes outrageously exercised their right to free speech since before the nation's founding, the Supreme Court did not begin to recognize this right until 1919. Freedom of speech and the press as we know it today is surprisingly recent. Anthony Lewis tells us how these rights were created, revealing a story of hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas.

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  • Title Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
  • Author Anthony Lewis
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 221
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date January 2008
  • ISBN 9780465039173 / 0465039170
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.67 x 5.94 x 0.86 in (22.02 x 15.09 x 2.18 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Freedom of speech - United States, Freedom of the press - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007040249
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.730

About the author

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis was a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page from 1969 through 2001. Since 1983, Lewis has been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. His previous three books are Gideon's Trumpet, which has sold nearly a million copies in over forty years in print; Portrait of a Decade; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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