TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shipler,David K.
TI  - Freedom of speech: mightier than the sword 
SN  - 0307957322 (hardback)
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitution
KW  - 1st Amendment
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Intellectual freedom
KW  - Social pressure
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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