Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech

Stephen D. Solomon

ISBN 10: 023034206X / ISBN 13: 9780230342064

Edité par St. Martin's Press, 2016

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• Titre: Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech
• Éditeur: St. Martin's Press
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 023034206X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780230342064
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good++
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • American History Books

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Synopsis

When the Framers of the Constitution developed what we call today the Freedom of Speech, they didn't realize they would be setting a foundation for the American political character we know today - raucous, intemperate, and often mean-spirited. This character is not limited to contemporary political discourse, as we so often assume. Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world far more complicated than the history we're all familiar with suggests, giving a clear picture of just how imprecise the Framers were about what such freedoms actually meant. Solomon explores through a series of chronological, advancing narratives how Americans employed robust and colourful expression as they debated separation from England and creation of a new system of government. Uninhibited protest provided vital meaning to the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and presses at a time when legal doctrine offered little protection from government prosecution. Revolutionary Dissent shows that the roots of the careers of satirists like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann, and the acts of flag burning, draft card destruction, and sit-ins like Occupy Wall Street, lie in the Revolutionary period's inflammatory engravings of Paul Revere, the polemics of Thomas Paine, and the symbol-laden protests again the Stamp Act. This is truly a revelatory work on the history of free expression in America.

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STEPHEN D. SOLOMON is an associate professor teaching First Amendment at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and The New Republic, and has been recognized with the Gerald Loeb Award and the Hillman Prize. His last book, Ellery's Protest, recounted the Supreme Court's controversial decision forbidding state-sponsored prayer and Bible reading in public schools.