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Free Speech Books
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Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as free-speech)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,832,983 ratings — published 1953
On Liberty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,149 ratings — published 1859
HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (Inalienable Rights)
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avg rating 3.85 — 344 ratings — published 2018
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.22 — 401 ratings — published 2012
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.44 — 912 ratings — published 1993
Free Speech And Why It Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.24 — 990 ratings — published 2021
The Tyranny of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.25 — 292 ratings — published 2010
Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 867 ratings — published 2009
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,164 ratings — published 2018
Free Speech for Me—But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.02 — 123 ratings — published 1992
Areopagitica (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 2,599 ratings — published 1644
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 489 ratings — published
‘I Find That Offensive!’ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.56 — 398 ratings — published 2016
There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 100 ratings — published 1993
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as free-speech)
avg rating 3.96 — 312 ratings — published 2017
Freedom from Speech (Encounter Broadside)
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avg rating 4.06 — 186 ratings — published 2014
The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech (MP3 CD)
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avg rating 4.13 — 910 ratings — published 2015
Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.77 — 473 ratings — published 2015
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 750 ratings — published 2013
The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,122 ratings — published
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,630 ratings — published 2021
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,012 ratings — published 2021
Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (Columbia Global Reports)
by (shelved 3 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.00 — 228 ratings — published 2019
All Minus One: John Stuart Mill's Ideas on Free Speech Illustrated (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.31 — 359 ratings — published 2018
Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 34 ratings — published 1979
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.02 — 528 ratings — published 1991
The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as free-speech)
avg rating 3.64 — 126 ratings — published 1998
The Soul of the First Amendment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 327 ratings — published 2017
Free Speech on Campus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as free-speech)
avg rating 3.91 — 255 ratings — published 2017
Dangerous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as free-speech)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,682 ratings — published 2017
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (New Forum Books)
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avg rating 3.59 — 143 ratings — published
A Letter Concerning Toleration (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,656 ratings — published 1689
The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.28 — 473 ratings — published 2016
Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 77 ratings — published
What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 77 ratings — published 2025
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 27,156 ratings — published 2024
Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know® (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 20 ratings — published
PSI Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as free-speech)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2013
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,095 ratings — published 2020
A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 225 ratings — published
Street Performers: Buskers and Busking (Street Savy Empowerment Guides)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Public Opinion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,569 ratings — published 1922
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as free-speech)
avg rating 3.52 — 802 ratings — published 2022
Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections (World Citizen Comics)
by (shelved 2 times as free-speech)
avg rating 4.24 — 144 ratings — published 2021
Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as free-speech)
avg rating 3.82 — 62 ratings — published 2017
A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 745 ratings — published 2010
Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870–1920 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
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avg rating 3.92 — 24 ratings — published 1997
The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published 1952
Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 2000
Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 180 ratings — published
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
“Freedom of speech gives us the right to offend others, whereas freedom of thought gives them the choice as to whether or not to be offended.”
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