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Author | Anthony Lewis |
ISBN-10 | 0679739394 | |
ISBN-13 | 9780679739395 | |
Year | 1992-09-01 | |
Pages | 368 | |
Language | English | |
Publisher | Vintage | |
Download Link | Click Here |
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 jury because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery s brutal response to civil rights protests The centuries of legal precedent behind the Sullivan case and the U S Supreme Court s historic reversal of the original verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping and wonderfully readable book by the Pulitzer Prize winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis It is our best account yet of a case that redefined what newspapers and ordinary citizens can print or say