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A new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new chapter by the author on some of the top First Amendment controversies of today When Nazis wanted to express their right to free speech in 1977 by marching through Skokie, Illinois--a town with a large population of Holocaust survivors--Aryeh Neier, then the national executive director of the ACLU and himself a Holocaust survivor, came to the Nazis' defense. Explaining what many saw as a despicable bridge too far for the First Amendment, Neier spelled out his thoughts about free speech in his 1979 book Defending My Enemy. Nearly fifty years later, Neier revisits the topic of free speech in a volume that includes his original essay along with a new chapter addressing present-day First Amendment battles, including the Charlottesville march, book bans, the heckler's veto, attacks on free speech on college campuses, and the threat to overturn the US Supreme Court decision in The New York Times v. Sullivan. Including a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by longtime free speech champion Nadine Strossen, Defending My Enemy offers razor-sharp analysis from the man Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute describes as ""an icon of justice and fearlessness.""

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Aryeh Neier has been the national executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, a cofounder of Human Rights Watch, and the president of the Open Societies Institute. In addition to writing half a dozen books on civil and human rights, he has authored over three hundred op-eds for venues including the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, and Foreign Policy. The author of Defending My Enemy, he lives in New York City. Nadine Strossen is a New York Law School professor emerita, past national president of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), a senior fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), and a frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties, who has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. Her books include HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship and Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know(R). Jim Seybert has been telling stories for more than sixty years. As a young boy he would dictate stories, telling his parents to ""write this down."" Fast-forward to the present, and Jim lends his clear, confident voice to some of the most interesting stories of the day: military histories, political commentary, true crime, heroic memoirs, and great fiction. When he is not recording in his studio on California's pristine Central Coast, he walks quietly along trails in the Sierra Nevada, cooks gourmet meals for friends, and watches films with his wife Rhonda and their Chihuahua, Lucy.

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