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Freedom Of Speech: Mightier Than The Sword

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published July 22, 2015 at 10:51 AM EDT

  With his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech.

Measured yet sweeping his new book, Freedom of Speech, brilliantly reveals the triumphs and challenges of defining and protecting the boundaries of free expression in modern America.
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