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)

More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordinary freedom results not from America’s culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First...(展开全部)

Book Description From one of the country's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment and the author of the classic Gideon's Trumpet, an eloquent essay on the importance of freedom of expression. More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little ...(展开全部)

Book Description From one of the country's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment and the author of the classic Gideon's Trumpet, an eloquent essay on the importance of freedom of expression. More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little ...(展开全部)

罗伯特·波斯特，耶鲁法学院现任院长，索尔和莉莉安·古德曼讲席法学教授。主要研究领域涉及宪法、第一修正案，法律史以及法律的平等保护。主要著作包括《宪法的领域：民主、共同体与管理》与《分裂的公民：竞选资金改革与宪法》等。波斯特教授同时还是美国哲学学会、美国法律学会以及美国国家科学与艺术学院成员。 左亦鲁，1985年生，北京人。现为耶鲁法学院法律科学博士（J.S.D.）候选人。中学毕业于北大附中，后获清华大学法学院法学学士（2008），清华大学法学硕士（2011）和耶鲁法学院法学硕士（LL.M., 2012）。研究领域包括宪法、言论自由、互联网治理与媒体法。

A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion", is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessar...(展开全部)

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。