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ABFFE
Book of the Month
The ABFFE
Book of the Month feature is an effort to help publicize important books
about free speech. Previous ABFFE Books of the Month are listed in
reverse chronological order. Click on the titles to read author
interviews.
March/April, 2008:
Hajdu, David.
The Ten Cent Plague: The Great
Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 978-0374187675.
February, 2008:
Wright, Ann and Susan Dixon.
Dissent: Voices of Conscience (Kihei, HI: Koa Books, 2008),
978-0977333844.
January, 2008:
Lewis, Anthony.
Freedom for the
Thought That We Hate (New York: Basic Books, 2008),
978-0465039173.
December, 2007:
Rothschild,
Matthew.
You Have No
Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression (New York:
The New Press, 2007),
978-1595581648.
November, 2007:
Wiegand,
Shirley A. and Wayne Wiegand.
Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 978-0806138688.
September, 2007:
Pearlstine, Norman.
Off the Record: The Press, the Government and the
War Over Anonymous Sources (New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2007), 978-0374224493.
July, 2007:
Barry, Bruce.
Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the
American Workplace (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, 2007), 978-1576753972.
For more titles on free
expression, click
here
to go to the First Amendment
Bookshelf.
Other titles of interest:
Solomon, Stephen D.
Ellery’s Protest: How One Young Man Defied
Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007),
978-0472108374.
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth.
Mencken: The American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of the Bad Boy of
Baltimore (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005), 978-0195072389. |