Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis

Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

Anthony Lewis

356 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local j...

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