Harry Kalven, the Proust of the First Amendment

Authors

Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia Law School

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1989

Abstract

Reading A Worthy Tradition makes one nostalgic. For the generation of scholars who cut their first amendment teeth on Harry Kalven's articles, this book offers the experience of a recaptured past. The question is, however, does it offer anything more?

Disciplines

First Amendment | Law

Comments

A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America by Harry Kalven, Jr. (edited by Jamie Kalven), New York: Harper & Row, 1988, pp. xxxii, 698. $35.00.

Recommended Citation

Lee C. Bollinger, Harry Kalven, the Proust of the First Amendment, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 1576 (1989).
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