Freedom of speech : mightier than the sword /
Shipler, David K., 1942-,
Freedom of speech : mightier than the sword / David K. Shipler. - First edition. - viii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) and index.
The landscape: Zones of silence, zones of speech -- Books. Trouble in River City ; The discerning audience ; Fear of reading -- Secrets. The loneliness of Thomas Tamm ; Thomas Drake and friends ; The new war correspondents -- Stereotypes. The cultural limits of bigotry ; The Protocols of the Elders of Islam -- Politics. Money is speech, poverty is silence ; True believers -- Plays. Red lines and black lists ; Post-traumatic syndrome of another kind ; The drama behind the drama.
Focusing on recent free speech controversies across the nation, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches' tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit; national security reporters using techniques more common in dictatorships to avoid leak prosecution; a Washington, D.C., Jewish theater's struggle for creative control in the face of protests targeting productions critical of Israel; history teachers in Texas quietly bypassing a reactionary curriculum to give students access to unapproved perspectives; the mixed blessings of the Internet as a forum for dialogue about race. Anchored in personal stories -- sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar -- Shipler's investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen build to expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of our democracy.
0307957322 (hardback) 9780307957320 (hardback)
2014032127
United States. 1st Amendment Constitution.
Censorship--United States--Case studies.
Freedom of speech--Social aspects--United States.
Freedom of speech--United States.
Intellectual freedom--United States.
Social pressure--Case studies.
Freedom of speech : mightier than the sword / David K. Shipler. - First edition. - viii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) and index.
The landscape: Zones of silence, zones of speech -- Books. Trouble in River City ; The discerning audience ; Fear of reading -- Secrets. The loneliness of Thomas Tamm ; Thomas Drake and friends ; The new war correspondents -- Stereotypes. The cultural limits of bigotry ; The Protocols of the Elders of Islam -- Politics. Money is speech, poverty is silence ; True believers -- Plays. Red lines and black lists ; Post-traumatic syndrome of another kind ; The drama behind the drama.
Focusing on recent free speech controversies across the nation, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches' tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit; national security reporters using techniques more common in dictatorships to avoid leak prosecution; a Washington, D.C., Jewish theater's struggle for creative control in the face of protests targeting productions critical of Israel; history teachers in Texas quietly bypassing a reactionary curriculum to give students access to unapproved perspectives; the mixed blessings of the Internet as a forum for dialogue about race. Anchored in personal stories -- sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar -- Shipler's investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen build to expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of our democracy.
0307957322 (hardback) 9780307957320 (hardback)
2014032127
United States. 1st Amendment Constitution.
Censorship--United States--Case studies.
Freedom of speech--Social aspects--United States.
Freedom of speech--United States.
Intellectual freedom--United States.
Social pressure--Case studies.