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Recommended Reading, by Sue Lyon

Abrams, Floyd. Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.

Amar, Akhil R. The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

Barnett, Randy E. Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, University Press, 2004.

Breyer, Stephen. Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2005.

Byrd, Robert. Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency. New York: Norton, 2004.

Chang, Nancy. Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002.

Curtis, Michael K. No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986.

Dadge, David, Ed. Silenced: International Journalists Expose Media Censorship. New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.

Darmer, Katherine B., et al., Eds. Civil Liberties vs. National Security in a Post-9/11 World. New York: Prometheus Books, 2004.

Dash, Samuel. Eavesdroppers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1959.

Dash, Samuel. The Intruders. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Dershowitz, Alan. Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Dworkin, Ronald. Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Etzioni, Amitai. How Patriotic is the Patriot Act? New York: Routledge, 2004.

Epstein, Richard. Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Henthoff, Nat. The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.

Lapham, Lewis H. Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.

Levy, Leonard W. Origins of the Bill of Rights. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Napolitano, Andrew P. Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws. Nashville, TN: Nelson Publishers, 2004

Nelson, William E. Marbury v. Madison, The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review.Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas 2000. An 1802 U.S. Supreme Court Case

Pound, Roscoe. The Development of Constitutional Guarantees of Liberty. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957.

Rehnquist, William H. All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.

Smith, Jean Edward. John Marshall: Definer of a Nation. New York: Holt, 1996.

Sunstein, Cass R. The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Simon, James F. What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002

Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech In Wartime – From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. New York: Norton, 2004.

Tushnet, Mark. A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law. New York: Norton, 2005.

Whitaker, Reg. The End of Privacy, How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality. New York: The New Press, 1999.

Inside 9-11: What Really Happened. Writers for Der Spiegel, Eds., Trans. St. Martin’s Press. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

The 9/11 Commission Report. Authorized Edition. New York: Norton, 2004. 11.September: Gesschichte enins Terroreingriffs. Deutsches Verlags-Anstalt, Hamburg, GE 2002.

Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001, PL 107-56, Oct. 26, 2001.