On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Christopher M. Finan to discuss his new book, <a href="https://shop.booksandbooks.com/book/9781586422981">How Free Speech Saved Democracy: The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Securing Liberty and Social Justice</a>, out now from Steerforth Press.________________________________Subscribe now to The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-literary-life-with-mitchell-kaplan/id1433854266">iTunes</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/21mZScZEfxQbJCQG5qySqB">Spotify</a>, or wherever else you find your podcasts!Christopher M. Finan has been involved in the fight against censorship for 35 years. He is executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship and the former president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. After working as a newspaper reporter, he studied American history at Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1992. He is the author of Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior, Drunks: An American History, and From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America, winner of the American Library Association’s Eli M. Oboler Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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