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A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis.
The First Amendment puts it this way: Congress shall make no lawabridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libeland was awarded by a local jurybecause the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomerys brutal response to civil rights protests.
The centuries of legal precedent behind the Sullivan case and the U.S. Supreme Courts historic reversal of the original verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping and wonderfully readable book by the Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize-winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. It is our best account yet of a case that redefined what newspapersand ordinary citizenscan print or say.
Author: Anthony Lewis
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/01/1992
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780679739395
Language: English
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