| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jeffery A. Smith. War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. viii, 324. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

Jeffery A. Smith ends his impressive study of press censorship with a warning from one of America's founders: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety," wrote Benjamin Franklin, "deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" (p. 228). The choice of Franklin is apt. Smith, a leading scholar of the colonial press and law, uses the legal precedent and the founders' intentions as a backdrop to his thoroughly researched and eloquently argued polemic on the excesses of censorship during times of war. A readable book that will find its way into undergraduate and graduate history, law, and press courses, Smith's study should also be read and its footnotes mined by scholars of the fields it touches. . . .

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