Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America. Bollinger shows how the idea of press freedom has evolved over time, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing an "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public discourse. But even then, government continually tried to erect barriers. Bollinger ...
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Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America. Bollinger shows how the idea of press freedom has evolved over time, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing an "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public discourse. But even then, government continually tried to erect barriers. Bollinger sheds light on this history and explores the future of the press in our globalized, internet-dominated era.
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