Free Speech Generation: The Civil Libertarians Who Saved the First Amendment and Transformed America

The untold story of the men and women who transformed America’s First Amendment from an unfulfilled promise into the world’s strongest protection for free speech.

Today, free speech is among America’s most powerful values. But for most of the nation’s history, the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech did little to protect those who challenged power or offended public morals. A newspaper publisher could be prosecuted for ridiculing the president. A birth-control advocate could be gagged...