The Washington Post, November 21st, 2004
PERILOUS TIMES Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism By Geoffrey R. Stone. Norton. 730 pp. $35 On July 4, 1951, at the height of Cold War tensions, a reporter asked 112 people in a park in Madison, Wis.consin, to sign a petition containing nothing more than quotations from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. All but one refused. ["Many Found Wary of July 4 Petition," New York Times, July 29, 1951, p. 43. Also reported elsewhere: Time, Washington Post, Nation.{scheck}yes, OK] Bitter ironies like this abound in Perilous Times, Geoffrey...
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