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The free press crisis of 1800 : Thomas Cooper's trial for seditious libel / Peter Charles Hoffer.
Van Pelt Library KF223.C653 H64 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
- Series:
- Landmark law cases & American society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Cooper, Thomas.
- Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839.
- Trials (Seditious libel)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Trials (Seditious libel).
- Freedom of the press--United States--History.
- Freedom of the press.
- United States.
- History.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 149 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2011]
- Contents:
- From the Zenger case to the First Amendment
- The Federalists pass a sedition act
- Thomas Jefferson and James Madison lead a protest
- Thomas Cooper's turn comes
- Freedom of the press on trial
- The unforeseen (and unintended) consequences of the Sedition Act crisis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700617647
- 0700617647
- 9780700617654
- 0700617655
- OCLC:
- 663773431
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