Minnesota Rag: The Dramatic Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Case That Gave New Meaning to Freedom of the Press by Fred W. Friendly

Minnesota Rag: The Dramatic Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Case That Gave New Meaning to Freedom of the Press

Fred W. Friendly

255 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1927 the publisher Jay M. Near - whose muck-raking newspaper The Saturday Press indulged his anti-Semitic, anti-black, anti-Catholic and anti-labor prejudices - was put out of business by a Minnesota gag law. This law allowed a single judge to ...

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