The First Amendment: Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.(Brief article)(Book review)

The First Amendment

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment. Anthony Lewis. New York: Basic, 2008. 221 pp. $25.00.

"Each year I read aloud to my criminal procedure students the final paragraphs of 'Gideon's Trumpet,' Lewis's definitive account of the 1963 Supreme Court case that recognized a constitutional right to court-appointed counsel. They never …