Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ashes to Ashes.

The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning-the government of the United States was the first to legalize free speech and a free press as fundamental rights. But when the British began colonizing the New World, strict censorship was the iron rule of the realm; any words, true or false, ...