Robert Corn-Revere

The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for anyone who wants to know more about how protections for free expression became part of the American identity and why freedom of speech is vitally important. By exploring historic examples, it explains why in a free society the censor never occupies the moral high ground.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781107570375
• ISBN-10: 1107570379
• Artikelnr.: 62032852

Autorenporträt

Robert Corn-Revere is a leading First Amendment lawyer whose career has spanned over thirty-five years. He has argued cases in the Supreme Court, defeated the FCC in the Super Bowl 'wardrobe malfunction' case, and obtained a posthumous pardon for the late comedian Lenny Bruce from the Governor of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The censor's dilemma
2. Anthony Comstock: professional anti-vice crusader
3. Comstock's legacy: a dilemma is born
4. The Comstock playbook
5. Seduction of the innocent: the comic book menace
6. Ya got trouble: censorship and popular music
7. The vast wasteland
8. New age Comstockery: the indecency wars
9. The anti-free speech movement
10. Freedom of speech and the spirit of liberty.