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THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH

Click here to learn more about this user’s guide to free speech. Now in Paperback with an updated afterword from NYU Press!

LA Review of Books

LA Review of Books raves: “‘The Fight for Free Speech’ may very well be the best introduction to free speech and freedom of the press. If only we could get everyone in Congress to read it.“ Click here to read the full review.

Paperback Launch Talk

Author Ian Rosenberg talks with NYC Council Member Christopher Marte at Book Club on May 16 at 8pm for the updated paperback release of THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH. Q&A + signing to follow.

FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK

Click here to view the website for this new nonfiction graphic novel out now from First Second!

A New York Times “What to Read” Pick!

FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK is featured as a NYT selection! Click here to see the full posting.

Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Publishers Weekly calls FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK “informative and inspiring”! Click here to read the full starred review here.

Watch the Trailer!

Click to see the FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK trailer. 👆

WNYC’s “All of It with Alison Stewart” Interview

Listen here! “All of It” says: A new graphic book explores the protections… and limitations… of free speech in America. Author and Brooklyn College media law professor Ian Rosenberg joins us to discuss FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK, and to give some insight into what role free speech protections played in … the January 6th insurrection.

NYPL TeenLIVE Author Talk

Watch the NY Public Library talk with FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK’s creators by clicking here.

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Interview

Watch this CBLDF interview with FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK author Ian Rosenberg. CBLDF says: “Rosenberg is a marvel at distilling what could potentially be jargon-filled topics into easy-to-understand concepts, illuminating the law with cases from the past and the present.” Click here to watch or read the transcript.

Watch our Politics and Prose Live! Talk

Click here to see FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK’s creators in conversation with Laura Wides-Muñoz, hosted by Politics and Prose bookstore.

Excerpt from FREE SPEECH HANDBOOK

Click here to see this 9 page excerpt on ComicsBeat.com.

Follow @freespeechbook on Twitter

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Political Science Quarterly

PSQuarterly calls THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH “exemplary” and “accessible”! Read their review here.

New York Public Library Virtual Talk

Author Ian Rosenberg speaks about his new paperback in an online talk hosted by Seward Park Library.

Watch Talks on THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH

Watch Ian on Nightline

Nightline coanchor Byron Pitts interviews author Ian Rosenberg about understanding your rights in his new book, THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH.

Brooklyn College Presents A Virtual Talk on THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH

Click here for video of talk. Info: This event in the Wolfe Institute’s series will focus on issues of free speech, book bans, academic freedom, and political attacks on the humanities. Featuring author and Brooklyn College Adjunct Lecturer Ian Rosenberg discussing the updated paperback edition of his free speech guide.

“Wisconsin Idea Spotlight” Talk

Watch THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH author Ian Rosenberg (UW ‘95) speak with UW Prof. Don Downs in this Wisconsin Alumni event.

Freedom Forum’s First Five Now

Watch Freedom Forum’s First Amendment series featuring media lawyer Ian Rosenberg

Watch the Helene Spring Library Event

Click here to see Ian Rosenberg’s talk on THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH!