The indispensable right free speech in an age of rage
"A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech-our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the si...
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New York, NY :
Simon and Schuster,
2024.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Free expression and the human condition
- Ancient speech and natural law
- The British experience : the star chamber, Blackstone, and "the nonconformists"
- The American revolution and Madison's monster
- The Boston Tea Party and America's birth in rage
- Shays' rebellion and the rise of American sedition
- The whiskey rebellion and "Hamilton's insurrection"
- Fries and the faux rebellion
- Adams and the return of "the monster"
- Jefferson and the wasp
- Jackson and the "lurking traitors" amongst us
- Lincoln and the Copperheads
- The gilded age and the mobbing of "free speech"
- Comstock and the obscenity of dissent
- "Wobblies" and World War I
- The bund and the biddle : sedition in World War II
- McCarthy and the Red Scare
- Days of rage : race, rhetoric, and rebellion in the 1960s
- Antifa, MAGA, and the age of rage
- January 6th and the revival of American sedition
- Holmes and the "route to hell"
- Holmes and Schenck : the socialist in a crowded theater
- Holmes and the "Deb's rebellion"
- The good Holmes and the abandonment of Schenck
- Rockwellian free speech
- Finding the forty-two of free speech
- "False news" and censorship by surrogate
- Academic orthodoxy and the restoration of free speech in higher education
- Slaying Madison's monster : ending sedition and speech prosecutions.
