{"product_id":"defending-my-enemy-aryeh-neier-9781620979914","title":"Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by Nadine Strossen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new essay by the author on the ensuing fifty years of First Amendment controversies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 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 1977 book \u003cem\u003eDefending My Enemy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow, nearly fifty years later, Neier revisits the topic of free speech in a volume that includes his original essay along with an extended new piece addressing some of the most controversial free speech issues of the past half-century. Touching on hot-button First Amendment topics currently in play, the second half of the book includes First Amendment analysis of the \"Unite the Right\" march in Charlotteville, campus protest over the Israel\/Gaza war, book banning, trigger warnings, right-wing hate speech, the heckler's veto, and the recent attempts by public figures including Donald Trump to overturn the long-standing \u003cem\u003eSullivan\u003c\/em\u003e v. \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e precedent shielding the media from libel claims.\u003c\/p\u003e\t\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncluding an afterword by longtime free speech champion Nadine Strossen, \u003cem\u003eDefending My Enemy\u003c\/em\u003e offers razor-sharp analysis from the man Muck Rack describes as having \"a glittering civil liberties r?sum?.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aryeh Neier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620979918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620979914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Aryeh Neier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46739206930687,"sku":"9781620979914","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f3b1c97-89f4-4ccf-9b06-40c640c3880e.jpg?v=1743277529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defending-my-enemy-aryeh-neier-9781620979914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}