Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
by Anthony Lewis
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Author: Anthony LewisEdition: Paperback
Published: 1992-09-01
ISBN: 0679739394
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Fantastic book
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I thought it would be a boring book. Surprise! It is very well written, and it brings tons of historical facts about freedom of speech and of the press in a context of story telling.
Summary of Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights protests. The centuries of legal precedent behind the Sullivan case and the U.S. Supreme Court's historic reversal of the original verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping and wonderfully readable book by the Pulitzer Prize -- winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. It is our best account yet of a case that redefined what newspapers -- and ordinary citizens -- can print or say.Contemporary Books
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