Censorship

Censorship
ISBN-10
0816033730
ISBN-13
9780816033737
Series
Censorship
Category
Education / General
Pages
202
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Facts on File
Author
Gail Blasser Riley

Description

More than two hundred years ago, the Founding Fathers established, with the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the right to freedom of expression and free speech. Since then, the issues of how absolute this "freedom" is and if and when it should be censored have pervaded American thought and laws. Regulations on speech during wartime and freedom of the press dominated the legal controversies at the beginning of the 20th century. Now, at the century's close, issues have arisen over new forms of media and types of electronic communication that our ancestors could never have imagined. In Censorship, Gail Blasser Riley offers an objective overview of these subjects, examining the controversies that surround them in both a historical and a contemporary context.

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