Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open - Bollinger, Lee C
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Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America. Bollinger shows how the idea of press freedom has evolved over time, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing an "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public discourse. But even then, government continually tried to erect barriers. Bollinger sheds light on this history and explores the future of the press in our globalized, internet-dominated era.…mehr

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Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America. Bollinger shows how the idea of press freedom has evolved over time, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing an "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public discourse. But even then, government continually tried to erect barriers. Bollinger sheds light on this history and explores the future of the press in our globalized, internet-dominated era.
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Lee C. Bollinger is the president of Columbia University and one of the nation's most thoughtful and original scholars of the First Amendment. He has received numerous awards and honors for his writings and public actions defending freedom of speech and press. He is also well-known for his leadership in successfully defending affirmative action and diversity in American higher education, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2003. His books include The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America, Images of a Free Press (OUP, 1986), and Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era. He lives in New York City and Vermont with his wife, Jean.