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Book Description
From one of the country's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment and the author of the classic Gideon's Trumpet, an eloquent essay on the importance of freedom of expression.
More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
In Lewis's telling, the story of how the right of free expression evolved along with our nation makes a compelling case for the adaptability of our constitution. Although Americans have gleefully and sometimes outrageously exercised their right to free speech since before the nation's founding, the Supreme Court did not begin to recognize this right until 1919. Freedom of speech and the press as we know it today is surprisingly recent. Anthony Lewis tells us how these rights were created, revealing a story of hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas.
作者简介
About the Author
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis was a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page from 1969 through 2001. Since 1983, Lewis has been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. His previous three books are Gideon's Trumpet, which has sold nearly a million copies in over forty years in print; Portrait of a Decade; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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读后感
刚看这本书的时候，最令我感到惊讶的是美国历史也有许多历史时期，由于各种政治原因，尤其是对外来和敌对政治势力的恐惧，今天可谓言论自由标兵的美国，也有许多不同意见的压制甚至迫害。然而，当我看完的时候，令我真正感触的是为什么经过所有历史的曲折，美国在言论自由和公...
评分 评分几年前，查理周刊事件发生，丑化穆罕穆德的漫画被蒙上恐怖主义带来的血光，而事后西方主流话语一致为言论自由站台的举动，促成我对西方言论自由精神态度之转向。那时的我，其实是不解的，只单纯觉得这种态度势必将加剧文明的仇恨，而这种危险将使得言论自由的所谓世界性价值变...
评分自由从来不会自己降临，这本书系统的介绍了美国人民争取自由的一个过程，作者以实际案例和法官们精彩的博弈做引证，从媒体，社会，个人等各个层面分析了第一修正案对美国人民生活和民主社会的影响，第一修正案的发展不仅是美国历史上的一个转折，更是全人类可以借鉴的一次民主...
评分用户评价
很好，引起了很多想法
评分非常好的书！介绍了几乎所有重要的推动这一过程的高院案例，对美国法律和民主感兴趣的读者不可错过的入门读物。
评分其实想给九分。可以当作第一修正案的hornbook来看，归纳得很好，材料内容的选择也很准确，但总体来说可能信息量就会牺牲一点。
评分非常好的简史，被美国诗意的法庭意见惊呆了”It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment...””One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.”
评分1) The course of the ratification of the First Amendment is surely a clumsy one 其实放眼望去 灯塔国的法制进程也是磕磕绊绊的 有些部分现在看来也是可笑而难以置信的 but there is nothing that a state ruled by law shall hide from its residents. 2)关于价值冲突的几个章节写的异常精彩 但是案件的铺陈有流水账的嫌疑 有很多问题反而暴露了联邦法庭广为诟病的缺陷——inconsistencies. 3) The curbs on political bidding is violating the freedom of speech(of $)
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