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The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty

The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty

Martin, Robert W. T.

Hardcover

General LawGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0814756557
ISBN13: 9780814756553
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2001
Pages: 239
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

The current, heated debates over hate speech and pornography were preceded by the equally contentious debates over the free and open press in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus far little scholarly attention has been focused on the development of the concept of political press freedom even though it is a form of civil liberty that was pioneered in the United States. But the establishment of press liberty had implications that reached far beyond mere free speech. In this groundbreaking work, Robert Martin demonstrates that the history of the free and open press is in many ways the story of the emergence and first real expansions of the early American public sphere and civil society itself.

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