The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gideon's Trumpet follows the progress of the 1960 libel suit that pitted The New York Times against a Montgomery, Alabama, city official, and whose settlement in the Supreme Court redefined what newspapers, and ordinary citizens, can print or say.

关于作者： 安东尼•刘易斯（Anthony Lewis），1927年3月生于纽约，毕业于哈佛学院。曾任《纽约时报》周日版编辑（1948-1952）、驻华盛顿司法事务报道记者（1955-1964）、伦敦记者站主任（1965-1972）、专栏作者（1969-2001），目前是《纽约书评》专栏作者。1955年、1963年两度获普利策奖。刘易斯曾在哈佛大学执教（1974-1989），并自1982年起，担任哥伦比亚大学“詹姆斯•麦迪逊讲席”教授，讲授第一修正案与新闻自由。著有《吉迪恩的号角》（Gideon’s Trumpet）、《十年人物：第二次美国革命》（Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution）、《言论的边界：美国宪法第一修正案简史》（Freedom for the Thought that ...(展开全部)

About this book The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights protests. The c...(展开全部)

威尔基·柯林斯(Wilkie Collins)，于1824年1月8日生于伦敦，1889年9月23日死在伦敦。父亲是个风景画家。他12岁时随父母迁居意大利，三年后回国，就读于海伯里私立寄宿学校，曾在茶叶公司工作，后改学法律，在伦敦林肯法学协会当过律师。1847年，父亲死后，他才开始以写作为生。第一部作品是《威廉·柯林斯》传，不久就从事小说创作。一开始成绩平平，后来他结识了当代文豪狄更斯，成为莫逆之交，并为狄更斯主编的，当时最风行的杂志经常撰稿。他的长篇小说往往在这本杂志上先发表，然后出单行本。这期间他写了不少小说，大都以侦破犯罪事件为题材，柯林斯即以此种小说蜚声社会，享誉30余年，但他作品虽多，而得以流传后世并得到肯定的仅有《月亮宝石》和成名作《白衣女人》两部。

The greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time, contends the author of this thought-provoking work, is the problem of overlegislation. In modern democratic societies, legislative bodies are increasingly usurping functions that were and should be exercised by individuals or groups rather than government. The result is an unwieldy surfeit of laws and regulations that by their s...(展开全部)

Few other economists have been read and cited as much as R.H. Coase, a scholar who approached economics as a philosopher: with contemplation, careful scrutiny of real conditions and consideration of the practical implications of theory. "These essays bear rereading. Coase's careful attention to actual institutions not only offers deep insight into economics but also provides th...(展开全部)

What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ways and to what degrees are they objective? Does anything of importance depend on the objectivity of law? These are some of the principal questions addressed by Matthew H. Kramer in this lucid and wide-ranging study that introduces readers to vital areas of philosophical...(展开全部)

金庸（1924- ），当代最为著名的武侠小说作家。他本名查良镛，浙江海宁人，上海东吴法学院毕业。1959年在香港亲手创办明报机构，出版报纸、杂志和图书，1993年退休。先后创作了十五部长篇及短篇的武侠小说，广受欢迎，印量无数。曾获颂多项荣衔，包括2000年获香港特别行政区颁授最高荣誉大紫荆勋章，香港和各国多所大学的荣誉学位、名誉教授、院士。还担任过浙江大学人文学院院长，英国牛津大学汉学研究院高级研究员。

This book provides the first systematic, book-length defence of natural law ideas in ethics, politics and jurisprudence since John Finnis's influential Natural Law and Natural Rights. Incorporating insights from recent work in ethical, legal and social theory, it presents a robust and original account of the natural law tradition, challenging common perceptions of natural law a...(展开全部)