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Protecting the best men : an interpretive history of the law of libel

Author: Norman L Rosenberg
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1986.
Series: Studies in legal history.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Rosenberg, Norman L., 1942-
Protecting the best men.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1986
(OCoLC)557643890
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Norman L Rosenberg
ISBN: 0807816655 9780807816653
OCLC Number: 11866797
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 369 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Politics of reputation in seventeenth-century America --
Publishers beware! Libel law in eighteenth-century America --
Framing an American law of libel, 1781-1797 --
Era of the Sedition Act and First-Amendment thought --
Law of libel and early nineteenth-century political culture --
Law of libel in the age of mass politics --
Beyond Hamiltonianism: libel law debates, 1840-1880 --
Legal science and Hamiltonian principles: libel law, 1880-1920 --
Libel law from World War I to the Cold-War era --
Law of libel in troubled times.
Series Title: Studies in legal history.
Responsibility: by Norman L. Rosenberg.

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