Author: Edwin WileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States
Author: Edwin WileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Law Lectures
Author: Law Academy of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
John Peter Zenger and the Fundamental Freedom
Author: William Lowell PutnamPublisher: Light Technology Publishing
ISBN: 162233700X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In 1733, John Paul Zenger began to print the New York Journal, the newspaper that was to change Zenger's life and the direction of journalism in colonial America. The material published in the Journal so incensed Sir William Cosby, the royal governor, that Zenger was arrested for seditious libel. Zenger's case was taken on by Andrew Hamilton, the foremost lawyer in the colonies, and after several months in prison the printer was found innocent. The case became a landmark of journalistic freedom, establishing that truth was the ultimate defense against charges of slander or libel, and was both emblem and incitement of America's belief in a free press. This work traces Zenger's life, the development of what was to become the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment freedom in the colonies, and its subsequent evolution on both sides of the Atlantic.
Monographic Series
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Lectures on Communications Media
Author: Summer Institute on International and Comparative LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of information
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Lectures by various authors grouped into 3 categories.
Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
Author: Richard KlugerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Vivid storytelling built on exacting research." —Bill Keller, New York Times Book Review In 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant, and as being a direct challenge against the prevailing law that criminalized any criticism of the royal government. Zenger was thrown in jail for nine months before his landmark one-day trial on August 4, 1735, in which he was brilliantly defended by Andrew Hamilton. In Indelible Ink, Pulitzer Prize–winning social historian Richard Kluger has fashioned the first book-length narrative of the Zenger case, rendering with colorful detail its setting in old New York and the vibrant personalities of its leading participants, whose virtues and shortcomings are assessed with fresh scrutiny often at variance with earlier accounts.
Lectures in Journalism ...
Author: University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Lectures in Journalism
Author: University of Michigan. Department of JournalismPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Unfettered Expression
Author: Peggie J. HollingsworthPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472111794
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Lectures given at the University of Michigan from 1991 to 1999.
Author: