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.