Emergence of a Free Press - Couverture souple

Levy, Leonard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566635608 ISBN 13 : 9781566635608

Editeur : Ivan R. Dee, 2004

Synopsis

What did freedom of the press really mean to the framers of the First Amendment and their contemporaries? This masterful book by a Pulitzer Prize–winning constitutional historian answers that question. In Emergence of a Free Press (a greatly revised and enlarged edition of his landmark Legacy of Suppression), Leonard W. Levy argues that the First Amendment was not designed to be the bulwark of a free press that many thought, nor had the amendment's framers intended to overturn the common law of seditious libel that was the principal means of stifling political dissent. Yet he notes how robust and rambunctious the early press was, and he takes that paradox into account in tracing the succession of cases and reforms that figured in the genesis of a free press. Mr. Levy's brilliant account offers a new generation of readers a penetrating look into the origins of one of America's most cherished freedoms.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leonard W. Levy, whose Origins of the Fifth Amendment won the Pulitzer Prize in history, is formerly Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional History at Brandeis University and Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and History at the Claremont Graduate School. His other writings, many of which have also won awards, include The Palladium of Justice, Blasphemy, The Establishment Clause, Freedom of the Press from Zenger to Jefferson, Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution, and Jefferson and Civil Liberties. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ivan R. Dee
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566635608
• ISBN 13: 9781566635608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 410
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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