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The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise

byLaura Weinrib

In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills for industrial interests. The Taming of Free Speech rests its case on archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, making room for uncertainty while explaining what the surviving evidence can establish. The Taming of Free Speech also examines the assumptions surrounding its subject, connecting them to wider arguments in history and law. The Taming of Free Speech emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

461

ISBN

9780674545717