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First Vintage Books Edition. |
| Description |
viii, 336 pages ; 25 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) and index. |
| Subject |
United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment.
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Freedom of speech -- United States.
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Freedom of speech -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Censorship -- United States -- Case studies.
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Social pressure -- Case studies.
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Intellectual freedom -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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| ISBN |
9780307957320 (hardback) |
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0307957322 (hardback) |
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9781101874691 (eBook) |
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1101874694 (eBook) |
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9780307947611 (pbk.) |
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0307947610 (pbk.) |
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