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Book Description
From one of the country's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment and the author of the classic Gideon's Trumpet, an eloquent essay on the importance of freedom of expression.
More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
In Lewis's telling, the story of how the right of free expression evolved along with our nation makes a compelling case for the adaptability of our constitution. Although Americans have gleefully and sometimes outrageously exercised their right to free speech since before the nation's founding, the Supreme Court did not begin to recognize this right until 1919. Freedom of speech and the press as we know it today is surprisingly recent. Anthony Lewis tells us how these rights were created, revealing a story of hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas.
作者简介
About the Author
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis was a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page from 1969 through 2001. Since 1983, Lewis has been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. His previous three books are Gideon's Trumpet, which has sold nearly a million copies in over forty years in print; Portrait of a Decade; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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读后感
几年前，查理周刊事件发生，丑化穆罕穆德的漫画被蒙上恐怖主义带来的血光，而事后西方主流话语一致为言论自由站台的举动，促成我对西方言论自由精神态度之转向。那时的我，其实是不解的，只单纯觉得这种态度势必将加剧文明的仇恨，而这种危险将使得言论自由的所谓世界性价值变...
评分“言论自由同一切自由一样，都是要各人自己去争取的。言论自由并不因为法律上有规定，或者宪法上有这一条，就可以得来，就是有规定也是没有用的。言论自由都是自己争取来的”。 ——胡适 还记得自己小学时候就成天叫嚣着没有言论自由。等到了高中，听着北京四中的赵利剑老师气...
评分刚看这本书的时候，最令我感到惊讶的是美国历史也有许多历史时期，由于各种政治原因，尤其是对外来和敌对政治势力的恐惧，今天可谓言论自由标兵的美国，也有许多不同意见的压制甚至迫害。然而，当我看完的时候，令我真正感触的是为什么经过所有历史的曲折，美国在言论自由和公...
评分这本书是国庆放假期间三天读完的。上一本书是“批评官员的尺度”，基于了解美国宪法第一修正案的想法，继续读了这本书，同一个作者所著。 看完之后的几点感受： 1、言论自由需要一个有力的制度作保障，司法是其中最重要的一个环节，美国从建国以来设计的三权分立制度和最高法院...
评分自由从来不会自己降临，这本书系统的介绍了美国人民争取自由的一个过程，作者以实际案例和法官们精彩的博弈做引证，从媒体，社会，个人等各个层面分析了第一修正案对美国人民生活和民主社会的影响，第一修正案的发展不仅是美国历史上的一个转折，更是全人类可以借鉴的一次民主...
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很好，引起了很多想法
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评分对题材感兴趣找来看，结果英文很难好多法律上的专业术语一度中断了想放弃，最近疫情的大环境下把它看完了，复杂长句子多，很多细节没看懂。但总体是很有趣的简史，包含各种相关的历史案例，从言论自由的适用范围，公共事务or个人，出版行业有没有特权，诽谤、煽动的裁定等等。“Even a false belief is valuable, because the process of debate about it may test and conform the truth of the opposing view.”
评分写的很好。最近在stanford模拟法庭讨论的reading
评分对题材感兴趣找来看，结果英文很难好多法律上的专业术语一度中断了想放弃，最近疫情的大环境下把它看完了，复杂长句子多，很多细节没看懂。但总体是很有趣的简史，包含各种相关的历史案例，从言论自由的适用范围，公共事务or个人，出版行业有没有特权，诽谤、煽动的裁定等等。“Even a false belief is valuable, because the process of debate about it may test and conform the truth of the opposing view.”
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