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Author:
Lief, Michael S.
Title:
And the walls came tumbling down : closing arguments that changed the way we live, from protecting free speech to winning women's suffrage to defending the right to die / Michael S. Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell.
Publisher:
Scribner,
Copyright Date:
c2004
Description:
404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Civil rights--United States--Cases--Popular works.
Other Authors:
Caldwell, Harry M.
Notes:
"A Lisa Drew book." Includes index.
Contents:
To be or not to be / Karen Ann Quinlan and the right to die -- The Amistad odyssey / American courts decide if a free man can be forced into slavery -- Enemy within / Radio state John Henry Faulk challenges the McCarthy-Era Blacklist -- A woman's rightful place / Susan B. Anthony casts a vote and battles for the ballot -- The truth shall set you free / The English crown and colonial government try muzzling newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger and the fledgling-American press -- The porn king and the preacher / Larry Flynt takes on the moral majority and becomes an unlikely champion for free speech -- What price too high? / One woman's fight for survival against cancer-and her HMO -- Cleansing the gene pool / Carrie Buck's forced sterilization and the limits on reproductive freedom.
ISBN:
9780743246668
0743246667
OCLC:
(OCoLC)54857563
LCCN:
2004045431
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)
W7AX771 -- Urban Campus (Des Moines)
N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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