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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

byJacob Mchangama

Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. Using archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, Free Speech moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Free Speech within history and law, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Readers come away with both the essential context and a sharper sense of how the history from socrates to social media continues to shape the present.

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

Feb 08, 2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

528

ISBN

9781541600492