Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer : : Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate / / Rodney A. Smolla.

In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view of the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the "Summer of Hate." Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unresolved wound of racism in our society...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. A Call from the Task Force
  • 2. The Charleston Massacre
  • 3. Becoming Richard Spencer
  • 4. Reverend Edwards
  • 5. The Charlottesville Monuments
  • 6. Blut und Boden
  • 7. Mr. Jefferson’s University
  • 8. Kessler v. Bellamy
  • 9. The Monuments Debate
  • 10. Competing Conceptions of Free Speech
  • 11. May Days
  • 12. Cue the Klan—Stage Right
  • 13. The Rise of the Marketplace
  • 14. Cue the Counterprotesters—Stage Left
  • 15. A Rolling Stone Gathers No Facts
  • 16. The Marketplace Doubles Down
  • 17. The Day of the Klan
  • 18. When Speech Advances Civil Rights
  • 19. Duke and the Disciples
  • 20. The Russian Connection
  • 21. A Call to Conscience
  • 22. Preparations
  • 23. The Day of the Cross
  • 24. The Idea of the University
  • 25. Heckler’s Veto
  • 26. Channels of Communication
  • 27. Rednecks and Saint Paul
  • 28. The Lawn and the Rotunda
  • 29. Bloodshed
  • 30. Aftermath
  • Notes
  • Index