Uninhibited, robust, and wide open : a free press for a new century / Lee C. Bollinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollinger, Lee C., 1946-

Series:

Inalienable rights series.

Inalienable rights series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of the press--United States.

Freedom of the press.

Censorship--United States.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New YOrk : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly clear terms. However, over the course of American history, Bollinger notes, the idea of press freedom has evolved, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing an ""unin

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open; CHAPTER TWO: It Is an Experiment; CHAPTER THREE: Regardless of Frontiers; CHAPTER FOUR: The Touchstone; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-974588-9

1-282-36608-4

9786612366086

0-19-974245-6

OCLC:

513909020