The Kingfish and the Constitution

Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America

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Richard, C. Cortner

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The Kingfish and the Constitution is an in-depth analysis of the poisonous relationship that evolved between Huey "Kingfish" Long, legendary governor of Louisiana, and the state's daily newspapers. Long's political battle over the newspaper tax in the Louisiana legislature in 1934 and the subsequent battle over the constitutionality of his attempt at censorship by taxation culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grosjean v. American Press Co. in 1936, a landmark decision that laid the basis for the protection of modern freedom of the press in America. This study will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, constitutional law, and American history.

Author Biography:

RICHARD C. CORTNER is Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is the author of eleven books, including most recently, The Iron Horse and the Constitution: The Railroads and the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment (Greenwood, 1993).

Release date NZ

February 28th, 1996

Author

Richard, C. Cortner

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Interest Age

From 7 to 17 years

Pages

216

Dimensions

163x240x22

ISBN-13

9780313298424

Product ID

7019721

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