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.

May 2009:
            Morrison, Toni (ed.) Burn this Book (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009), 978-0-06-177400-3.

January/February 2009:
            Feldman, Stephen M. Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 978-0226240664.

December 2008:
            Wittern-Keller, Laura and Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008), 978-0700616183.

October/November 2008:
            Scherer, Mark R. Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2008), 978-0896726260.

September, 2008:
            Wartzman, Rick. Obscene in the Extreme: the Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (New York: Public Affairs, 2008), 978-1586483319.

August, 2008:
            Schultz, Bud and Ruth Schultz. We Will Be Heard: Voices in the Struggle for Constitutional Rights Past and Present (New York: Merrell, 2008), 978-1858944418.

June/July, 2008:
            Siegel, Barry. Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 978-0060777029.

May, 2008:
            Lichtblau, Eric. Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice (New York: Pantheon, 2008), 978-0375424922.

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:

            Woodward, Mary. In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story (Bainbridge Island, WA: Fenwick Publishing, 2008), 978-0974951072.

            Cooke, John Byrne. Reporting the War: Freedom of the Press from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), 978-14039-75157.

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

             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.