And the walls came tumbling down
Subtitle: closing arguments that changed the way we live, from protecting free speech to winning women's suffrage to defending the right to die
By: Michael S. Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell.
Contributors: Caldwell, Harry M.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Civil rights -- United States -- Cases -- Popular works.
Genres: Popular works.
Notes: "A Lisa Drew book."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: To be or not to be / Karen Ann Quinlan and the right to die; title: The Amistad odyssey / American courts decide if a free man can be forced into slavery; title: Enemy within / Radio state John Henry Faulk challenges the McCarthy-Era Blacklist; title: A woman's rightful place / Susan B. Anthony casts a vote and battles for the ballot; title: The truth shall set you free / The English crown and colonial government try muzzling newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger and the fledgling-American press; title: The porn king and the preacher / Larry Flynt takes on the moral majority and becomes an unlikely champion for free speech; title: What price too high? / One woman's fight for survival against cancer-and her HMO; title: Cleansing the gene pool / Carrie Buck's forced sterilization and the limits on reproductive freedom.