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The Logic of Persecution: Free Expression and the McCarthy Era (Hardcover, New)
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The Logic of Persecution: Free Expression and the McCarthy Era (Hardcover, New)
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This book demonstrates that neither the current liberal nor
conservative positions on the McCarthy era provide the basis for a
clear normative perspective. Examining the era through the lens of
the theory of free expression, it becomes apparent that both sides
have basically missed the key point. While recently declassified
documents demonstrate widespread participation by American
Communists in conducting or facilitating espionage, much of the
negative treatment they received had little or nothing to do with
such activity. From the perspective of the First Amendment right of
free speech, there exists a significant difference between speech
that advocates conduct, on the one hand, and speech that itself is
part of a nonspeech criminal act, such as espionage, on the other.
By helping to separate protected speech from unprotected
"speech-acts," First Amendment theory can do much to distinguish
between the legitimate governmental responses to American Communism
and those that contravened basic notions of communicative freedom
protected by the Constitution. At the same time, by focusing the
First Amendment inquiry on the McCarthy era, one should be able to
glean insights about the broader implications of free speech
protection.
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