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Make No Law

The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

Make No Law( )
Author: Lewis, Anthony
ISBN:978-0-679-73939-5
Publication Date:Sep 1992
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.95
Book Description:

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 law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel--and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury--because the...
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Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Law / Constitutional
Law / Defamation
Law / Media & The Law
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.16 x 7.97 x 0.79 Inches
Book Weight:0.675 Pounds
Author Biography
Lewis, Anthony (Author)
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis is the author of Make No Law and the bestseller Gideon's Trumpet. In his nearly five decades of writing and reporting for The New York Times, he served as the Time's London bureau chief for eight years; he now contributes the twice-weekly "Abroad at Home" column to the paper's op-ed page.

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