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

by Laura 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. But by the Second World War, prominent figures in both camps celebrated the judiciary for protecting freedom of speech. In this strikingly original histor

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

461

ISBN

9780674545717