Lewis, Anthony, 1927- <br/><br/>
Freedom for the thought that we hate :  a biography of the First Amendment 
/ Anthony Lewis 
 - New York  : Perseus Books Group  , 2007. 
 - 221 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Beginnings -- 'Odious or contemptible' -- "As all life is an experiment" -- Defining freedom -- Freedom and privacy -- A press privilege? -- Fear itself -- 'Another's lyric' -- 'Vagabonds and outlaws' -- Thoughts that we hate -- Balancing interests -- Freedom of thought. 
<br/><br/> "More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. They can criticize the White House or air the secrets of the bedroom with little fear of punishment. This extraordinary freedom is based on just fourteen words in our Constitutions: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment." "But the freedom we now take for granted did not take hold when the First Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1791. It was more than a century later, in 1931, when the Supreme Court first enforced the Amendment to protect speakers and the press. Since then judges have interpreted the sweeping language of the First Amendment to build a great structure of American liberty." "In Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, Anthony Lewis tells the story of legal and political conflict, hard choices, and determined, sometimes eccentric Americans who led the legal system to realize one of America's great founding ideas."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780465039173 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007040249 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Freedom of speech---United States<br/>Freedom of the Press
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>342.0853 LEW