Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel

by Norman L. Rosenberg

Book Overview

From the trial of John Peter Zenger in the eighteenth century to the recent libel cases of William Westmoreland and Ariel Sharon, political defamation cases have attracted considerable attention. As Norman Rosenberg shows, cases like these raise fundamental questions about how much criticism of public leaders a supposedly open, liberal society will permit. Drawing upon a wide variety of historical sources, Protecting the Best Men argues that there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807816655
• ISBN13: 9780807816653
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"