221 pp., xv. '1' in number line. Contents divided into 12 Chapters: (1) " Beginnings"; (2) " ' Odious or Contemptible? ' "; (3) " ' As All Life is an Experiment ' "; (4) "Defining Freedom"; (5) "Freedom and Privacy"; (6) "A Press Privilege?"; (7) "Fear Itself"; (8) " 'Another's Lyric ' "; (9) " ' Vagabonds and Outlaws ' "; (10) "Thoughts That We Hate"; (11) "Balancing Interests"; (12) "Freedom of Thought"; Acknowledgments, p. 191; Table of Cases, pp. 193-195; Notes, pp. 197-208; Index, pp. 209-221. Dustwrapper not price-clipped (25.00) with full front cover color photo-portrait (detail; no eyes shown) of young person in black turtleneck, facing reader, with rectangular bit of red cloth covering lips and serving as background for Title lettering in white, above Subtitle in light gray across middle front cover, with Author name lettering in red letters over white background band across lower front cover; red endpapers. Micro tear at one corner; micro bumps (dw only, NOT to book corners), else unqualifiedly As New): NOW in Brodart mylar for additional protection and aesthetic appeal. Inscribed and signed on Title page beneath Author's printed name: "For ---- / Anthony Lewis". UNREAD, evidently opened only for signing.

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Title: Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment * * SIGNED, INSCRIBED * *
Publisher: Basic Books / Perseus Book Group, New York
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0465039170
ISBN 13: 9780465039173
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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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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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