Description

Seventeen essays explore free­dom of expression from five per­spectives.

Of particular interest are Stephen A. Smith’s “Freedom of Expression in the Confederate States of America”; William Bailey’s “The Supreme Court and Communication Theory:

Contrasting Models of Speech Efficacy”; Paul Siegel’s “Protect­ing Political Speech: Branden­berg v. Ohio Updated”; Franklyn S. Haiman’s “Nazis in Skokie: Anatomy of a Heckler’s Veto”; and Karl M. Wallace’s “An Ethical Basis of Com­munication”; and the unique an­notated bibliographies of the major essays on freedom of speech and of major essays on communication ethics.

About the Author

Thomas L, Tedford, John J. Makay, and David L. Jamison teach at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Ohio State University, and the Uni­versity of Akron respectively.