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And the walls came tumbling down : closing arguments that changed the way we live, from protecting free speech to winning women's suffrage to defending the right to die / Michael S. Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell.

by Lief, Michael S.

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New York : Scribner, c2004.

Civil rights -- United States -- Cases -- Popular works.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon051/2004045431.html

404 p. ; 24 cm.

To be or not to be / Karen Ann Quinlan and the right to die -- The Amistad odyssey / American courts decide if a free man can be forced into slavery -- Enemy within / Radio state John Henry Faulk challenges the McCarthy-Era Blacklist -- A woman's rightful place / Susan B. Anthony casts a vote and battles for the ballot -- The truth shall set you free / The English crown and colonial government try muzzling newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger and the fledgling-American press -- The porn king and the preacher / Larry Flynt takes on the moral majority and becomes an unlikely champion for free speech -- What price too high? / One woman's fight for survival against cancer-and her HMO -- Cleansing the gene pool / Carrie Buck's forced sterilization and the limits on reproductive freedom.

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