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[Christopher Finan] ☆ From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America ì Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America Historian and free-speech advocate Christopher Finan introduces us to a cast of characters as varied as a young G.I. Gurfein, a judge from another era, have special resonance: "The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. At a time when government is warning citizens and the press to watch what they say, the words of Murray I. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of
| Title | : | From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807044296 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
Historian and free-speech advocate Christopher Finan introduces us to a cast of characters as varied as a young G.I. Gurfein, a judge from another era, have special resonance: "The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. At a time when government is warning citizens and the press to watch what they say, the words of Murray I. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know."From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act traces the fight for free speech from the turn of the nineteenth century through the War on Terror. Christopher M. Decades later, a second Red Scare gripped the United States as Senator Joseph McCarthy spearheaded a witch-hunt for Russian agents while sneering at "egg-sucking liberals" who defended "Communists and queers."The nearly century-long battle between heresy hunters and civil libertarians makes the story of free speech in this country a colorful one, filled with dramatic episodes and larger-than-life personalities. Mitchell Palmer launched a government roundup of thousands of Russian immigrants and deported 800 of them for their radical ideas, a flagrant violation of First Amendment rights. In 1919, Atto
Josh Burnett said Lively and engaging account. Considering that most treatments of the subject are dry tomes, this is an account of the long efforts by many Americans to secure our Constitutional rights to free speech and free published accounts of ideas in the press.A real advantage of this book i. Gripping novel If you're eyes weren't open before this book will set you straight about the need to fight for your democratic right at every turn. We take for granted the liberties we enjoy currently. This book is an account of what it took people of this century to . A reminder that free speech is not guaranteed in the Constitution As a writer I've long assumed that First Amendment rights were enshrined in the Constitution. However, after readying Christopher M. Finan's history I realized for the first time just how tenuous those rights are in U.S. history. It is truly amazing to
Mitchell Palmer launched raids during which 4,000 Americans, mostly immigrants, were rounded up because they were suspected of being Communists. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The government has more than once tried to suppress the First Amendment right to free expression of suspected radicals, antiwar activists and labor unionists. . The book is especially apropos for our own age, when, confronted by the Patriot Act, otherwise mild-mannered librarians have morphed into tenacious guardians of civil liberty, refusing to open client records to the FBI. But it's also chock-full of heroes (from the ACLU to those brave librarians) who have refused to be si
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