War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power

by Jeffery Alan Smith

Book Overview

War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power is a groundbreaking and provocative study of one of the most perplexing civil liberties issues in American history: What authority does or should the government have to control press coverage and commentary in wartime? First Amendment scholar Jeffery A. Smith shows convincingly that no such extraordinary power exists under the Constitution, and that officials have had to rely on claiming the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019509946X
• ISBN13: 9780195099461
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"