Freedom of Speech (Point/Counterpoint) by Alan Allport

by Alan Allport

Looks at freedom of speech in the United States from different perspectives, offering statistics, statutes, legal opinions, and studies to help form an educated opinion.

Library Binding

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Alan Allport is a Professor of modern British history at Syracuse University. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. His book Demobbed: Coming Home after the Second World War was published by Yale in 2009 and won the 2010 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award. In 2015, his book Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 was published by Yale. He is currently working on a two volume history of Britain in the Second World War, the first volume of which, Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1938-1941, was published by Profile (UK) and Knopf (North America) in 2020.