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Figures of Speech : First Amendment Heroes and Villains by William Bennett Turner (Foreword by Anthony Lewis) is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is Figures of Speech : First Amendment Heroes and Villains about?
Recounting controversial First Amendment cases from the Red Scare era to Citizens United, William Bennett Turner—a Berkeley law professor who has argued three cases before the Supreme Court—shows how we’ve arrived at our contemporary understanding of free speech. His strange cast of heroes and villains, some drawn from cases he has litigated, includes Communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Ku Klux Klansmen, the world’s leading pornographer, prison wardens, dogged reporters, federal judges, a computer
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- William Bennett Turner (Foreword by Anthony Lewis)
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781936227037
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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