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THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH

Ian Rosenberg

Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

Told in entertaining and accessible prose, this book is the answer to a clear and immediate need (particularly in the current political climate) for facts to rely on especially those pertaining to the protections and limitations of the First Amendment.

People on all sides of the political spectrum are demanding their right to speak and be heard. The Fight for Free Speech answers this call with an accessible, engaging user's guide to free speech. Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question - from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee's expletives, from Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels - and then identifies, unpacks, and explains the key Supreme Court case that provides the answers. Together these fascinating stories create a practical framework for understanding where our free speech protections originated and how they can develop in the future.

The Fight for Free Speech is a handbook for combating authoritarianism, protecting our democracy, and bringing an understanding of free speech law to all.

Ian Rosenberg has over twenty years of experience as a media lawyer, and has worked as legal counsel for ABC News since 2003. He graduated with distinction from the University of WisconsinMadison, and magna cum laude from Cornell Law School. Rosenberg began his legal career clerking for a United States district court judge in the Eastern District of New York, and then working as a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is also an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and teaches media law at Brooklyn College. He lives in New York City with his wife, Caroline Laskow, and their two children.

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Book Published 2021-02-09 by NYU Press

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The past greets the present in Ian Rosenberg's captivating free speech stories. These true-to-life accounts invite readers to reflect on the value of liberty and the price of freedom. Rosenberg's revealing narratives, based on ten seminal cases, are crafted with the finesse of a gifted writer combined with the acumen of a learned lawyer. Forceful yet thoughtful, credible yet concise, historical yet modern, engaging yet erudite -- they all tumble together in The Fight for Free Speech, a mind-opening book aptly fit for our times.

The Fight for Free Speech is a wonderful guide to our free speech rights, serving as an engaging introduction for all readers, and as an illuminating source of insights even for those with expertise in First Amendment law.

With verve and aplomb,The Fight for Free Speech reveals actual free speech conflicts on the ground along with the basic First Amendment law they engendered. It is a gift for citizenship.

Ian Rosenberg's riveting portrayal of ten of the Supreme Court's leading free speech cases is a page-turner! The Fight for Free Speech tells the gripping, behind-the-scenes stories of those whose visions and passion paved the way for their causes to be heard before our country's High Court.

Rosenberg beautifully combines the legal discussions with stories of contemporary examples, and leaves plenty of space to add new examples that will surely present themselves on a regular basis. It is guaranteed to start a discussion!

Using recent controversies about free expression as his starting point, Ian Rosenberg introduces general readers to classic problems that have defined the constitutional contours of freedom of expression. You don't need a legal background to learn a great deal from The Fight for Free Speech.

This book should be required reading for all engaged citizens. My colleague Ian Rosenberg puts vital information about the law in crisp, comprehensible language. You get a tour through history and a primer on your rights in this eminently useful and readable book.

A deep dive into 10 precedent-setting legal actions that helped define the scope - and limits - of the First Amendment... Essential reading for journalists, political activists, and ordinary citizens alike.

The Fight for Free speech is a must read for anyone, of any age, to understand the stakes for the amendment America's founders chose to put first, because without it representative democracy dies aborning. The magic of this book is that it is written with the clarity, concision and dynamism vital to make its lessons stick. It is simply a great read, and a powerful one.