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  • University

    A Reckoning

    From perhaps the most important university leader of the twenty-first century, an account of the university in the age of authoritarianism and a new case for its place in the American system.The American university—one of the most successful institutions in human history—is facing an unprecedented assault from the president of the United States. Experts on authoritarianism have drawn comparisons ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • The Free Speech Century

    The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for first invoking the phrase "clear and present danger." Although the decision upheld the conviction of an individual for criticizing the draft during World War I, it also laid the foundation for our nation's ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open

    A Free Press for a New Century

    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly clear terms. However, over the course of American history, Bollinger notes, the idea of press ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Money, Politics, and the First Amendment

    Fifty Years of Supreme Court Decisions and Campaign Finance Reforms

    Money in political campaigns is a subject of endless current interest and enormous consequence for American democracy. Beginning in 1976, in Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court established a framework for public campaign regulation that declared that money constitutes "speech" and that the only constitutional basis upon which the government can regulate money was to prohibit corruption or the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Roe v. Dobbs

    The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion

    With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end--once again, after a half-century-of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, shockingly overruled by the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The goal of this book is to bring together some of our nation's leading ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Legacy of Discrimination

    The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action

    A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective. Since 1961, the issue of "affirmative action" has been a hotly contested legal and political issue. Intended to address our nation's ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy

    A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of "bad" speech on the internet within the American context. One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence-on the internet, and in particular speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In Social ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press

    The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On

    Written by a group of the nation's leading constitutional scholars, a deeply informed, thoughtful, and often surprising examination of who has First Amendment rights to disclose, to obtain, or to publish classified information relating to the national security of the United States. One of the most vexing and perennial questions facing any democracy is how to balance the government's legitimate ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Eternally Vigilant

    Free Speech in the Modern Era

    While freedom of speech has been guaranteed us for centuries, the First Amendment as we know it today is largely a creation of the past eighty years. Eternally Vigilant brings together a group of distinguished legal scholars to reflect boldly on its past, its present shape, and what forms our understanding of it might take in the future. The result is a unique volume spanning the entire spectrum ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open

    A Free Press for a New Century

    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly clear terms. However, over the course of American history, Bollinger notes, the idea of press ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    University

    A Reckoning

    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    The American university―one of the most successful institutions in human history―is facing an unprecedented assault from the president of the US. Experts on authoritarianism have drawn comparisons to other countries where strongmen subdued universities as part of their power grabs. Yet as former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger points out in his account of the university's significance, in such ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Legacy of Discrimination

    The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action

    Unabridged

    4 hours 51 min

    A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.In A Legacy of Discrimination, leading constitutional scholars Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone trace affirmative action's history ... Read more

    $15.99 USD