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Cargando... Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Presspor Richard Kluger
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Kluger has written a fascinating history of roughly 70 years of politics in colonial New York, but the actual account and commentary on the Zenger trial takes up roughly one-fifth of the book. And his commentary, including the epilogue which attempts to connect Peter Zenger to Edward Snowden, strikes me as pedestrian. The political history and characterizations are excellent, however! ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge to the prevailing law against "seditious libel", which criminalized any criticism of the government. Fronting for a group of powerful antiroyalist politicians, Zenger was jailed for nine months before his landmark trial in August 1735, when he was brilliantly defended by Philadelphia lawyer Alexander Hamilton. In this book, Richard Kluger recreates this dramatic clash that marked the birth of press freedom in America and its role in vanquishing colonial tyranny. Here is an enduring lesson that redounds to this day on the vital importance of free public expression as the underpinning of democracy. -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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