Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism
by Geoffrey R. Stone, Professor of Law Geoffrey R Stone
Category: History

An investigation into how free speech and other civil liberties have been compromised in America by war in six historical periods describes how presidents, Supreme Court justices, and resistors contributed to the administration of civil freedoms, in an account complemented by rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations. 20,000 first printing.