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Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of PEN America, Dare To Speak provides a pathway for promoting free expression while also cultivating a more inclusive public culture. Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what’s the meaning of you?
With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people who discovered the meaning of their lives in the historic events of our times.
A 60 Minutes correspondent and former anchor of the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley writes as a witness to events that changed our world. In moving, detailed prose, he stands with firefighters at the collapsing...
4) Free speech for me--but not for thee: how the American left and right relentlessly censor each other
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
For years now, Nat Hentoff has been the best-known lay guardian of the magnificent spirit and letter of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. His principled advocacy of free expression for all seems to be needed more than ever today, at a time of appalling assaults on expression not only by traditional opponents on the political right - those offended by what they consider obscene or radical or otherwise taboo - but also from...
5) Dangerous
Author
Publisher
Dangerous Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A book on free speech from the former Breitbart columnist, cultural libertarian, and blogger Milo Yiannopoulos.
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
There's a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free speech. We argue about whether it's at risk, whether college students fear it, whether neo-Nazis deserve it, and whether the government is adequately upholding it. But as P. E. Moskowitz provocatively shows in The Case Against Free Speech, the term has been defined and redefined to suit those in power, and in recent years, it has been captured by the Right to push their...
10) Free speech
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A collection of articles debating issues related to free speech such as censorship, restrictions on the press, pornography, and libel.
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rand Paul, U.S. senator for Kentucky and America's most prominent libertarian, makes a case against socialist ideology, showing the impact of its deadly legacy and the threat of its new rise in America"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Stone incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, ending with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Censorship is a complicated topic, but it's one that affects young people's lives. Debates about banning books and other kinds of censorship, especially what children should and should not have access to, continue to happen today. Readers are given the tools to better understand what censorship is--both in the United States and in other countries--in order to develop an informed opinion about this timely topic. The accessible text is paired with eye-catching...
Author
Publisher
Viking Penguin
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An eminent First Amendment advocate discusses his best-known cases in light of the current threat to America's freedom of speech. From the Patriot Act to Janet Jackson's Super Bowl show, recent events have embroiled America and its media in ongoing battles to maintain this country's freedom of expression. In this book, an attorney on the front lines of America's fight for uncensored expression for more than thirty years re-creates eight of his most...