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Burning the Flag The Great 1989–1990 American Flag Desecration Controversy 1996, 476 pp
courtesy of our partner, Atlas Books |
“In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that dissidents
had a constitutional right under the First Amendment to burn the flag. During
the Bush Administration, Congress passed the Flag Protection Act (FPA), and
so doing reflected the broad spectrum of opinion that saw the flag as a sacred
symbol of American freedoms. Robert Justin Goldstein's Burning the Flag thoughtfully
draws on the disciplines of law, political science and history to analyse
the controversy in all its dimensions.”
— London Review of Books
“Goldstein has written a wonderfully comprehensive and highly readable history and analysis of the flag desecration debate in the US.”—Choice
