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Make No Law : The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment Paperback - 1992
by Lewis, Anthony
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gideon's Trumpet follows the progress of the 1960 libel suit that pitted The New York Times against a Montgomery, Alabama, city official, and whose settlement in the Supreme Court redefined what newspapers, and ordinary citizens, can print or say.
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- Title Make No Law : The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
- Author Lewis, Anthony
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1992-09-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3388438-6
- ISBN 9780679739395 / 0679739394
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Category Politics / Current Events
- Library of Congress subjects Libel and slander - United States, Press law - United States
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92050104
- Dewey Decimal Code 347.305
- Quantity available 2
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From the jacket flap
The First Amendment 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.
