Thursday, October 25, 2007

Anthony Lewis Freedom for the Thought That We Hate in Publishers Weekly


Publishers Weekly, 10/22

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: Tales of the First Amendment, Anthony Lewis. Basic, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-465-03917-3

The First Amendment’s injunction that “Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” seems cut and dried, but its application has had a vexed history, according to this lucid legal history, Lewis’s first book in 15 years (after Make No Law and Gideon’s Trumpet).


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