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How and why the First Amendment fails to protect speech rights

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"This is a thoughtful analysis ranging over history and recent cases."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly
"An important work, offering sophisticated yet engaging analyses of First Amendment law and the media landscape in which we find ourselves in the United States."--Matthew Bunker, Reese Phifer Professor of Journalism, University of Alabama
"A forceful and intellectually comprehensive argument that the First Amendment should be a positive, not simply a negative, guarantee that empowers and perhaps obliges government to protect the public ends of free expression. . . . Stein brings a breadth of perspectives and material to the subject that few, if any, have managed to do. Her book is an original and important contribution to our understanding of free expression in America."--Randall P. Bezanson, author of How Free Can the Press Be?

Speech Rights in America

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      Publisher MO - University of Illinois Press
      Published 10 January 2007
      ISBN-13 9780252075360
      978-0252075360
      ISBN-10 0252075366
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      Entertainment and media law Human rights, civil rights

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How and why the First Amendment fails to protect speech rights

      Trade Review
      "This is a thoughtful analysis ranging over history and recent cases."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly
      "An important work, offering sophisticated yet engaging analyses of First Amendment law and the media landscape in which we find ourselves in the United States."--Matthew Bunker, Reese Phifer Professor of Journalism, University of Alabama
      "A forceful and intellectually comprehensive argument that the First Amendment should be a positive, not simply a negative, guarantee that empowers and perhaps obliges government to protect the public ends of free expression. . . . Stein brings a breadth of perspectives and material to the subject that few, if any, have managed to do. Her book is an original and important contribution to our understanding of free expression in America."--Randall P. Bezanson, author of How Free Can the Press Be?

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