Unfettered expression : freedom in American intellectual life / edited by Peggie J. Hollingsworth ; with a foreword by David Halberstam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hollingsworth, Peggie J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic freedom--United States.

Academic freedom.

United States.

Freedom of speech--United States.

Freedom of speech.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, [2000]

Summary:

A group of major thinkers addresses fundamental questions of intellectual freedom both within and without the academy. The essays in this volume were originally given as lectures in a series established in 1991 to honor three University of Michigan faculty members who, in 1954, refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee and were thereafter suspended or dismissed by the University. The authors reflect on the questions and challenges to academic freedom that the predicament of those three scholars put into such sharp focus.

Notes:

Lectures given at the University of Michigan from 1991 to 1999.

ISBN:

0472111795

OCLC:

44712863