Free speech comes at a price In the West, the right to free speech is understood to have its limits - but where to draw them? wonders Brendan Simms

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 9, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The First Freedom: A History of Free Speech

by Robert Hargreaves

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OF THE "essential freedoms", US President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed in January 1941, "the first is freedom of speech and expression". In his stimulating and engrossing First Freedom, the veteran journalist and broadcaster Robert Hargreaves sets out to establish how the concept of freedom of speech developed historically and "who its heroes are".

In the first third of the book, the heroic baton is passed from the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates - ...

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