"The Free and Open Press ought to be required reading whenever
anyone questions the meaning of the Founding Fathers, the framers
of the Constitution, or other early American icons of
liberty."
--"Journalism History"
"Robert W. T. Martin revitalizes a debate over the status of
press rights in eighteenth-century America that had grown tiresome
over the past 20 years...all scholars of American political thought
and constitutional development should read this book."
--"American Political Science Review"
"Martin uses a number of fresh quotations and a helpful
arranging and packaging of many ideas on a momentous topic."
-- "American Historical Review"
"Martin is not the first to examine that familiar topic, but his
is the most heavily contextualized discussion of the topic yet and
the most ambitious in scope."
--"The Journal of American History"
"In a welcome contrast to many recent studies (and museum
exhibitions), Martin sees a clear, prima facie party distinction on
the issue of press freedom."
--"William and Mary Quarterly"
The current, heated debates over hate speech and pornography
were preceded by the equally contentious debates over the "free and
open press" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus far
little scholarly attention has been focused on the development of
the concept of political press freedom even though it is a form of
civil liberty that was pioneered in the United States. But the
establishment of press liberty had implications that reached far
beyond mere free speech. In this groundbreaking work, Robert Martin
demonstrates that the history of the "free and open press" is in
many ways the story of the emergence and first realexpansions of
the early American public sphere and civil society itself.
Through a careful analysis of early libel law, the state and
federal constitutions, and the Sedition Act crisis Martin shows how
the development of constitutionalism and civil liberties were bound
up in the discussion of the "free and open press." Finally, this
book is a study of early American political thought and democratic
theory, as seen through the revealing window provided by press
liberty discourse. It speaks to broad audiences concerned with the
public square, the history of the book, free press history,
contemporary free expression controversies, legal history, and
conceptual history.
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