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Book SynopsisReferring to a situation in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, which was home to many survivors of the Holocaust in the 1970s, and where American Nazi sympathizers wished to demonstrate, the author of this book argues that freedom of speech must be defended even in the most abhorrent of circumstances.
Trade ReviewA meticulous and graceful narrative of one of the most gripping free speech conflicts of modern times." —Rodney A. Smolla, author of
Free Speech in an Open Society"Strum succeeds brilliantly in telling the two stories of Skokie-the constitutional struggle over free speech and the human agony and conflict that permeated it. In clear, rigorous, and vivid prose, she recreates the legal and political culture when the case arose in the 1970s and then shows how more recent intellectual theories bear on what happened. A simply wonderful book." —Norman Dorsen, Stokes Professor, NYU, and president, ACLU, 1976-1991
"Strum paints a remarkably complete picture of the entire Skokie controversy and helps put the debate over the First Amendment protection for 'hate speech' into meaningful perspective." —David Goldberger, Ohio State University College of Law professor and former ACLU attorney for Frank Collin and the National Socialist Party of America
"A book that students will read eagerly and that teachers will find a pleasure to use." —Melvin I. Urofsky, author of
Affirmative Action on Trial: Sex Discrimination in Johnson v. Santa Clara
