Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer: Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate

by Rodney A. Smolla

Book Overview

In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the summer of hate. Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights.

Smolla has spent his career in the thick of these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150174965X
• ISBN13: 9781501749650
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher