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History of America's Freedom to Read​
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Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment
by Burt Neuborne
A legal expert and top civil-liberties lawyer analyzes the First Amendment to the Constitution, not dissecting individual pieces, but examining it as a whole and describes how it was intended to guarantee the process of democracy, not individual rights.
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Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment
by Floyd Abrams
An eminent First Amendment litigator cites recent events that have challenged America's freedom of expression, from the Patriot Act to the media's growing role in everyday lifestyles, recounting eight landmark cases that took place during the author's career in order to cast light on the importance of protecting the nation's constitutional right to free speech.
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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
by Akhil Reed Amar
A professor of Constitutional law at Yale analyzes the history and meaning of each clause of the original Bill of Rights and shows how a later generation of abolitionists profoundly changed the Bill into the one Americans know today.
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Documents that Changed the Way We Live
by Joseph Janes
Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories that describe these documents; their creation, motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends.
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The Bill of Rights: A History in Documents
by John J. Patrick
Uses contemporary documents to explore the history of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the British traditions on which they were based, and their impact on American society.
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Figures of Speech: First Amendment Heroes and Villains
by William Bennett Turner
Recounting controversial First Amendment cases from the Red Scare era to Citizens United, William Bennett Turner--a Berkeley law professor who has argued three cases before the Supreme Court--shows how we've arrived at our contemporary understanding of free speech.
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
by Carol Berkin
Describes how the Bill of Rights came into existence, detailing how the Founders argued over the contents of the document, reflecting an ideological divide between the power of the federal versus state governments that still exists to this day.
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The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
by Jonathan Hennessey
An illustrated account of the American Constitution covers each article and amendment in a graphic format designed to render its meanings more relevant and accessible to modern readers, in a volume that addresses such topics as the separation of church and state, the break from the monarchy, and the limits imposed on presidential power.
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The Constitution: An Introduction
by Michael Stokes Paulsen
Offers an introduction to the supreme law of the United States, covering the Constitution's history and meaning in clear, accessible terms.
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The Soul of the First Amendment
by Floyd Abrams
The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the US Constitution--the First Amendment. Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer and award-winning legal scholar specializing in First Amendment issues, examines the degree to which American law protects free speech more often, more intensely, and more controversially than is the case anywhere else in the world, including democratic nations such as Canada and England.
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Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition
by Lewis Perry
The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, the justifications used to defend it, disagreements among its practitioners, and the controversies it has aroused at every turn.
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Democracy: A Case Study
by David A. Moss
Inviting readers to experience American history anew and come away with a deep understanding of our democracy’s greatest strengths and vulnerabilities, a historian adapts the case-study method made famous by Harvard Business School to show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict.
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