Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. 1*1. The First Amendment and Social Engineering, pg. 9*2. The First Amendment and Democracy, pg. 46*3. The First Amendment and Dissent, pg. 86*4. The First Amendment and Method, pg. 110*5. The First Amendment and Romance, pg. 140*Notes. Index, pg. 171

Reviews

"[Surprises] are in store for readers of [this book]. The biggest one is that [Shiffrin's] First Amendment exemplars aren't such history-making United States Supreme Court justices as Oliver Wendell Holmes and William J. Brennan but Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson."--Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times "[Shiffrin] masterfully makes the best case for an enduring constitutional and cultural love affair with the First Amendment."--Ronald Collins, ABA Journal