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Perilous Times Free Speech in Wartime

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  • ABOUT Geoffrey Stone

    Geoffrey Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. A faculty member since 1973, Stone has served as both dean of the University of Chicago Law School and provost of the University of Chicago. One of the nation's leading scholars of the First Amendment, he has published several books and more than a hundred articles in the field of constitutional law. His publications have won numerous national awards.

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 6, 2004.

Geoffrey R. Stone, a professor at The University of Chicago Law School and a foremost authority on the First Amendment, discusses Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, his new history of actions by the United States government that have had the potential to endanger fundamental rights during wartime.

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Iraq war, Civil War, Lincoln, World War I, World War II, Human Rights, Justice System

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