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Author Lief, Michael S.

Title And the walls came tumbling down : closing arguments that changed the way we live, from protecting free speech to winning women's suffrage to defending the right to die / Michael S. Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  342.7308 LIE    Lost and Paid
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  342.7308 L62    Check Shelf
Description 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "A Lisa Drew book."
Includes index.
Contents To be or not to be / Karen Ann Quinlan and the right to die -- The Amistad odyssey / American courts decide if a free man can be forced into slavery -- Enemy within / Radio state John Henry Faulk challenges the McCarthy-Era Blacklist -- A woman's rightful place / Susan B. Anthony casts a vote and battles for the ballot -- The truth shall set you free / The English crown and colonial government try muzzling newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger and the fledgling-American press -- The porn king and the preacher / Larry Flynt takes on the moral majority and becomes an unlikely champion for free speech -- What price too high? / One woman's fight for survival against cancer-and her HMO -- Cleansing the gene pool / Carrie Buck's forced sterilization and the limits on reproductive freedom.
Subject Civil rights -- United States -- Cases -- Popular works.
Added Author Caldwell, H. Mitchell, 1949-
ISBN 0743246667 hardcover
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