| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1800. By Robert W. T. Martin. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. xiv, 239 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8147-5655-7.)

At a time when limitations on free expression are widely accepted in the academy and elsewhere in the interest of political correctness, when government tends toward a new secretiveness, and when a diminishing handful of corporate giants disseminates the news, it is good to have a careful examination of the nature and origins of the tradition that on several fronts seems under stress. In what Robert W. T. Martin calls repeatedly and perhaps a bit too self-consciously a 'conceptual history,' he undertakes to account for the emergence about 1800 of a 'modern' theory of press liberty. . . .

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