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  • The Accidental Law Librarian

    Series series The Accidental Library Series
    Where can I find the case Simpson v. Satterfield? What are the laws in Nevada on gun ownership? Can you help me apply for a business license? How do I copyright my name? Questions like these make a new law librarian's head spin. The truth is, all librarians are apt to get legal questions, and most struggle to respond. Collection development, too, is tricky if you seldom work with legal publishers. ... Leer más

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  • Just Plain Filthy

    The Story Behind Book Banning's Trial of the Century

    With the threat to intellectual freedom increasing around the country, this book takes a look at the first ever school book ban case to be decided by the high courts, and offers insights into how we can use history to help the future.In 1975, the school board members of a small Long Island town did what they thought was a no-brainer: they ordered the removal of nine books from a high school ... Leer más

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    Just Plain Filthy

    The Story Behind Book Banning's Trial of the Century

    Narrado por John Chancer ...

    Completo

    7 hora 15 minutos

    Bloomsbury presents Just Plain Filthy by Anthony Aycock, read by John Chancer.With the threat to intellectual freedom increasing around the country, this book takes a look at the first ever school book ban case to be decided by the high courts, and offers insights into how we can use history to help the future.In 1975, the school board members of a small Long Island town did what they thought was ... Leer más

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    "The twelve lessons in On Fascism draw from American history and brilliantly complement those of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny." —Laurence TribeThe United States of Lyncherdom, as Mark Twain labeled America. Lincoln versus Douglas. The Chinese Exclusion Act. The Trail of Tears. The internment of Japanese-Americans. The Palmer Raids. McCarthyism. The Surveillance State. At turning points throughout ... Leer más

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  • Fight of the Century

    Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

    The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane ... Leer más

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  • Victory

    The Triumphant Gay Revolution

    In the vein of Taylor Branch's classic Parting of the Waters, Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit Linda Hirshman delivers the enthralling, groundbreaking story of the gay rights movement, revealing how a dedicated and resourceful minority changed America forever.When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted in the summer of 1969, forty-nine states outlawed sex between people of the same ... Leer más

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  • One Nation Under Guns

    How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

    This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.“At once eye-opening and enraging, One Nation Under Guns is that rare book that can help change ... Leer más

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  • The Deadline

    Essays

    de Jill Lepore ...
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  • The Indispensable Right

    Free Speech in an Age of Rage

    A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment ... Leer más

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  • How Rights Went Wrong

    Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart

    de Jamal Greene ...
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  • Privacy

    de Garret Keizer ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    American essayist and Harper's contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence.Body scans at the airport, candid pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street corner -- today we have an audience for all of the extraordinary and banal events of our lives. The ... Leer más

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  • Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

    A Biography of the First Amendment

    de Anthony Lewis ...
    More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First ... Leer más

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