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

(Part of the Studies in Legal History Series)

by Norman L. Rosenberg

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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"

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