Book Reviews : Freedom and Communications. By DAN LACY. (Second edition; Urbana: Univer sity of Illinois Press, 1965. Pp. viii, 108. $3.00 cloth, $0.95 paper.)

AuthorCharles G. Mayo
Published date01 March 1966
Date01 March 1966
DOI10.1177/106591296601900138
Subject MatterArticles
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suggest a few chapters from her father’s If Men Were Angels plus &dquo;The Fallacy of
Universal Law,&dquo; a book review essay appearing in 1944 in the Harvard Law Review.
And of course Judge Frank’s concurring opinion in U.S. v. Roth is a near-classic
examination of censorship in all its forms as well as a monument to the enlightened,
empirically oriented jurisprudence which he so ably espoused.
In all, from twenty separate judicial opinions, five articles or speeches, and
four monographs, the editor has presented some rich, varied and enjoyable trim-
ming. This reviewer once knew a philosophy student who deemed it his solemn duty
to go about passing out free copies of the works of J. D. Salinger. Would that some
prosperous law student undertake a like crusade in the distribution of A Man’s
Reach. And he might well begin in his own profession.
HARRY P. STUMPF
University of New Mexico
Freedom and Communications. By DAN LACY. (Second edition; Urbana: Univer-
sity of Illinois Press, 1965. Pp. viii, 108. $3.00 cloth, $0.95 paper.)
Although Dan Lacy, a professional librarian, did not direct his remarks spe-
cifically to political scientists, there is much of importance for both the political
scientist and the layman in this book. In this second edition of a report of lectures
given by the author as a Windsor Lecturer in librarianship at the University of Illi-
nois in 1959, he takes a long, hard look at the system of communications in contem-
porary America. He delineates the challenges confronting the system, the responses
it has made to the challenges, and the future of the system...

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