Free Speech Handbook

“A captivating read for any engaged citizen in today’s turbulent marketplace of ideas.”–Juju Chang, Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline

“This remarkable book is a joy. It celebrates the First Amendment in a manner that readers young and old can savor and learn from.”–Floyd Abrams, First Amendment lawyer and author of The Soul of the First Amendment

“This informative and inspiring guide looks past free-speech clichés to home in on how such rights are not chiseled in stone but fought over on an ever-shifting battlefield.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Traces the evolution of the First Amendment as it has been interpreted in American society and through various free speech laws.” –New York Times, a “What to Read” selection

Ian Rosenberg has worked as a media lawyer for over twenty-five years, specializing in First Amendment, libel, and intellectual property law. A graduate of Cornell Law School, he is an adjunct associate professor at Brooklyn College, and an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. He is the author of The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms and Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody: Dominion v. Fox and the Future of Democracy.

Mike Cavallaro is from New Jersey and has worked in comics and animation since the early 1990s. His comics include Eisner Award-nominated Parade (with Fireworks), The Life and Times of Savior 28 (written by J. M. DeMatteis), Foiled and Curses! Foiled Again (written by Jane Yolen), Decelerate Blue (written by Adam Rapp), and the Nico Bravo and Eowulf series.