Description: Touching on the major sedition trials while expanding the discussion beyond the usual focus on freedom of speech and the press to include the treatment of immigrants, Halperin's book provides a window through which readers can explore the meaning of freedom of speech, immigration, citizenship, the public sphere, the Constitution, and the Union.
Brief description: Terri Diane Halperin is a member of the history department at the University of Richmond.
Review Quotes: The book is well researched and extremely well written. And it is teachable--one of the best short texts this reviewer knows of for undergraduate courses in early US history. Highly recommended.
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