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The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.

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Baron (Univ. of Illinois), a well-published emeritus professor of English, presents a solid discussion of most First Amendment free speech and press issues and also examines some lesser-known First Amendment byways. These include the relationship between the First Amendment rights to peaceably assemble and protest and Second Amendment protections for the right to bear arms, which could intimidate and provoke violence on such occasions; speech, especially during wartime, that is believed to pose "a clear and present danger"; the difficulties of seeking to define and regulate obscenity; the regulation of threats issued over social media or directed at the US president; attempts to make English the official language of the US and/or limit uses of other languages; and cases of required speech, as in the Miranda warnings that police must give to criminal suspects. Baron's own background in linguistics leads to some enlightening insights into the process of constitutional interpretation. He highlights areas of ongoing concern, such as the use of speech to silence the speech of others and the tradeoff between heightened modes of electronic communication and decreased privacy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals. --John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University