The fight for free speech : ten cases that define our First Amendment freedoms / Ian Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Ian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--1st Amendment.

United States.

Freedom of speech--United States--Cases.

Freedom of speech.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question--from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee's expletives, from neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels-- and then identifies, unpacks, and explains the key Supreme Court case that provides the answers"--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

1. The Women's March and the marketplace of ideas

2. Take a knee and the Pledge of Allegiance

3. Libel, actual malice, and the civil rights movement

4. Student speech from the Vietnam War to the National School Walkout

5. Stormy Daniels, prior restraints, and the Pentagon Papers

6. Flipping off the president and fuck the draft

7. Samantha Bee, seven dirty words, and indecency

8. Saturday Night Live, Hustler, and the power of parody

9. Nazis in Charlottesville, funeral protests, and speakers we hate

10. Social media and the "vast democratic forums of the Internet".

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-0158-5

OCLC:

1243310988