FIRST FREEDOM
Published on 25. January 2012
363 pages
978-0-307-79990-6 (ISBN)
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A history of free speech in our country from earliest times to some of the controversial court cases of today involving school demonstrations and the right of Nazis to march.
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Nat Hentoff
First Freedom
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02/1988
Delacorte Press
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Person
Award-winning journalist and social commentator Nat Hentoff (1925-2017) was one of the most prolific jazz writers of the '50s and '60s, providing liner notes for countless albums, as well as writing or editing several books on jazz, including Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It. His writing appeared in Esquire, Harper's, and the Village Voice, where he wrote for 50 years. In 1995, he received the National Press Foundation's award for lifetime achievement, and in 2004, he was the first non-musician to win the honor of being named one of six Jazz Masters by the NEA.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Part I - Students/Teachers/Librarians: Free-speaking "Persons" under the Constitution
- Part II - From "Imagining the Death of the King" to the Birth of the First Amendment
- Part III - The Hard, Early Times of the First Amendment: From the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 to the "Red Scare" of the First World War
- Part IV - The Supreme Court of the United States Confronts Criminal "Seditious" Speech
- Part V - Freedom of-and from-Religion under the First Amendment
- Part VI - The Constitutional Powers of the Free Press
- Part VII - The Outer Limits of Protected Speech-and Beyond
- Afterword by the author
- Bibliography
