{"product_id":"9798902680369","title":"Free Speech Generation: The Civil Libertarians Who Saved the First Amendment and Transformed America","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePerrino, Nico\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBenBella Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1\/19\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of the men and women who transformed America’s First Amendment from an unfulfilled promise into the world’s strongest protection for free speech.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, free speech is among America’s most powerful values. But for most of the nation’s history, the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech did little to protect those who challenged power or offended public morals. A newspaper publisher could be prosecuted for ridiculing the president. A birth-control advocate could be gagged by Boston’s mayor. Protesters could be jailed for distributing antiwar leaflets, and an author could even be arrested for reading the Constitution aloud.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFree Speech Generation\u003c\/i\u003e tells the dramatic story of the people who made the First Amendment’s promise real. Some were lawyers and professors. Others were journalists, students, internet pioneers, and professional heretics. Many first embraced free speech as a tactic in fights for labor, civil rights, sexual freedom, or peace. However, over time, they forged it into a principle—one they extended even to communists, Klansmen, neo-Nazis, flag burners, and pornographers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThrough vivid portraits and courtroom battles, \u003ci\u003eFree Speech Generation\u003c\/i\u003e reveals:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow America went 140 years before the Supreme Court first struck down a speech restriction under the First Amendment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhy a Jewish lawyer defended neo-Nazis who wanted to rally where thousands of Holocaust survivors lived\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow the Berkeley Free Speech Movement anticipated a constitutional revolution\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow burning the American flag came to represent a “bedrock” First Amendment principle\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow early cyber-libertarians stopped Congress from imposing broad censorship rules on the emerging internet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhy today’s fights over hate speech, campus censorship, misinformation, and political retaliation continue battles civil libertarians have fought for decades\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAt once a collective biography, constitutional history, and political drama, \u003ci\u003eFree Speech Generation\u003c\/i\u003e asks whether the civil libertarians who created America’s Free Speech Century left behind a lasting inheritance—or a fragile achievement already beginning to crack.","brand":"BenBella Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48700904472831,"sku":"9798902680369","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9798902680369_s600x595.png?v=1781632030","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9798902680369","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}