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Free Speech and Unfree News

The Paradox of Press Freedom in America

Sam Lebovic

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$43.50 • £34.95 • €39.00

ISBN 9780674659773

Publication Date: 03/14/2016

352 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

World

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Sam Lebovic is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University.

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Listen to Sam Lebovic discuss the “everyday politics of information” on the podcast New Books in Intellectual History
At the American Historical Association blog AHA Today, read Lebovic’s “short history of American secrecy”
Read about the history of classified information in a New York Times Magazine feature
At Columbia Journalism Review, read Lebovic’s detailed look at the history leading to Gannett’s recent proposal to buy Tribune Publishing—a merger that would leave Gannett with a circulation of 62 million
Read Lebovic’s Politico essay on John Nickerson, the first American to be prosecuted for leaking top-secret national security information to the press—and how that case informed today’s bizarre legal handling of whistleblowers
On Texas Public Radio’s The Source, listen to Lebovic discuss how a Constitutionally-protected right to publish doesn’t necessarily provide Americans with access to well-researched, high-quality information
Watch Lebovic lecture on Free Speech and Unfree News at the National Archives

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