| Description |
199 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
The Reference shelf ; v. 50, no. 6 |
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Reference shelf ; v. 50, no. 6.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 192-199. |
| Contents |
Part I. Obscenity : what's in a word -- The way the wind blows / Peter Michelson -- Obscenity : who's to say? / Richard Boeth and Elaine Sciolino -- First Amendment pixillation -- The "filthy words" decision -- I say lock 'em up / M.J. Sobran, Jr. -- Obscenity - forget it / Charles Rembar -- Part II. The First Amendment's wide net -- Everybody has the right to be wrong / Jan Caffey Lyles -- The press, privacy and the Constitution / Floyd Abrams -- Television's trying times / Karl E. Meyer -- Our all-too-timid press / Tom Wicker -- A secretive security / David Wise -- Two theories of press freedom / Floyd Abrams -- Part III. The case of Myron A. Farber -- Courts and the process of news gathering / Deirdre Carmody -- The Farber case / Anthony Lewis -- Notes and comment -- Farber case dulls the edge of press silver sword / Haynes Johnson -- The Farber case is not a black and white issue / Bernard M. Boris -- The rights of Myron Farber / Ronald Dworkin -- The doctor and the press -- Part IV. Freedom of assembly in Skokie, Illinois -- Skokie - the extreme test / Carl Cohen -- Marching through Skokie / Hadley Arkes -- The A.C.L.U. against itself / J. Anthony Lukas -- Postmortem on the Nazis / Wm.F. Buckley, Jr. -- For all or for none. |
| Subject |
Freedom of the press -- United States.
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Obscenity (Law) -- United States.
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Assembly, Right of -- Illinois -- Skokie.
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Freedom of religion -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Bartlett, Jonathan, 1931-
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| ISBN |
0824206274 |
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