The indispensable right : free speech in an age of rage / Jonathan Turley.
| Author/creator | Turley, Jonathan, 1961- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Publication | New York ; Toronto ; London ; Sydney ; New Delhi : Simon & Schuster, 2024. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | x, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Free expression and the human condition -- Ancient speech and natural law -- The British experience : the star chamber, Blackstone, and the "nonconformists" -- The American revolution and Madison's monster -- The Boston Tea Party and America's birth in rage -- Shays' Rebellion and the rise of American sedition -- The Whiskey Rebellion and "Hamilton's insurrection" -- Fries and the faux rebellion -- Adams and the return of "the monster" -- Jefferson and The wasp -- Jackson and the "lurking traitors" amongst us -- Lincoln and the Copperheads -- The gilded age and the mobbing of "free speech" -- Comstock and the obscenity of dissent -- "Wobblies" and World War I -- The bund and the biddle : sedition in World War II -- McCarthy and the Red Scare -- Days of rage : race, rhetoric, and rebellion in the 1960s -- Antifa, MAGA, and the age of rage -- January 6th and the revival of American sedition -- Holmes and the "route to hell" -- Holmes and Schenck : the socialist in a crowded theater -- Holmes and the "Debs rebellion" -- The good Holmes and the abandonment of Schenck -- Rockwellian free speech -- Finding the forty-two of free speech -- "False news" and censorship by surrogate -- Academic orthodoxy and the restoration of free speech in higher education -- Slaying Madison's monster : ending sedition and speech prosecutions. |
| Abstract | "This book places the current attacks on the right of free speech in their proper historical, legal, and political context. The United States was born in an age of rage and for 250 years we have periodically lost sight of the value of free expression. The history of the struggle for free speech is the story of extraordinary people-nonconformists who refuse to yield to abusive authority-and here is a mosaic of vivid characters and controversies. Jonathan Turley takes readers through the figures and failures that have shaped us and then shows the unique dangers of our current moment. The alliance of academic, media, and corporate interests with the government's traditional wish to control speech has put us on an almost irresistible path toward censorship. Turley reminds us that we remain a nation grappling with the implications of free expression and with the limits of our tolerance for the speech of others"-- Provided by the publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-406) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Turley, Jonathan. Indispensable right First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York ,NY : Simon and Schuster, 2024. 9781668047064 |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Illustrated works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| Genre/form | Ouvrages illustrés. |
| LCCN | 2023052916 |
| ISBN | 9781668047040 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1668047047 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781668047057 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1668047055 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |