American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression

First Amendment Bookshelf

Fall 2007

Recent Titles:

Ackerman, Kenneth D. Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare and the Assault on Civil Liberties (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007), 978-0786717750.

Atkins, Robert and Svetlana Mincheva. Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression (paperback, New York: New Press, 2006), 978-1595580504.

Barry, Bruce. Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007), 978-1576753972.

Cole, David and James X. Demspey. Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security (paperback, New York: New Press, 2006), 978-1565849396.

Everitt, David. A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007), 978-1566635752.

Finan, Christopher M. From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007), 978-0807044285.

Haynes, Charles C., Sam Chaltain and Susan M. Glisson. First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 978-0195157508.

Heins, Marjorie. Not in Front of the Children: “Indecency,” Censorship and the Innocence of Youth (paperback, Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 978-0813542218.

Levinson, Nan. Outspoken: Free Speech Stories (paperback, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006), 978-0520249974.

MacPherson, Myra. All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of the Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone (New York: Scribner, 2006), 978-0684807133.

Morgan, Bill and Nancy Peters. Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression (paperback, San Francisco: City Lights Publishing, 2007), 978-0872864795.
 

Pearlstine, Norman. Off the Record: The Press, the Government and the War Over Anonymous Sources (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), 978-0374224493.

Romero, Anthony D. And Dina Temple-Raston. In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 978-0061142567.

Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (paperback, New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), 978-0393327458.

Backlist:

(All titles are available in paperback except Olmsted, Challenging the Secret Government.)

Boyer, Paul S. Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), 978-0299175849.

Collins, Ronald L.K. and David Skover. The Trials of Lenny Bruce (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2003), 978-1570718373.

De Grazia, Edward. Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius (New York: Vintage, 1993), 978-0679743415.

Friendly, Fred W. Minnesota Rag: Corruption, Yellow Journalism and the Case that Saved Freedom of the Press (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 978-0816641611.

Leff, Leonard J. and Jerold L. Simmons. The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship and the Production Code (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001), 978-0813190112.

Lewis, Anthony. Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (New York: Vintage, 1992), 978-0679739395.

Olmsted, Kathyrn S. Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 978-0807845622.

Peters, Shawn F. Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2002), 978-0700611829.

Polenberg, Richard. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court and Free Speech (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999), 978-0801486180.

Rudenstein, David. The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998), 978-0520213821.

Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 978-0691048703.

Walker, Samuel. In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University, 1999), 978-0809322701.


 

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