The Free and Open Press : The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty / Robert W.T. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Robert W. T. (Robert William Thomas), 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of the press--United States--History.

Freedom of the press.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The current, heated debates over hate speech and pornography were preceded by the equally contentious debates over the ""free and open press"" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus far little scholarly attention has been focused on the development of the concept of political press freedom even though it is a form of civil liberty that was pioneered in the United States. But the establishment of press liberty had implications that reached far beyond mere free speech. In this groundbreaking work, Robert Martin demonstrates that the history of the ""free and open press"" is in many wa

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; Introduction; 1 The English Inheritance: From Milton to Cato; 2 The Coming of the Crisis; 3 The Pre-Revolutionary Crisis; 4 The Making of the First Amendment; 5 The Emergence of Modern Democratic Press Liberty; Conclusion: The Foundation of American Press Liberty; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-5976-9

OCLC:

779828208