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Acknowledgments
Pt. I The Collector and His Passions
1 My Passion for Collecting 3
2 My Passions for Freedom of Speech, Criminal Law, and Thomas Jefferson 27
Pt. II The Letter
3 Finding the Jefferson Letter 45
4 The Provenance of the Jefferson-Boardman Letter 75
Pt. III My Letter to Jefferson
5 Where We Have Come since 1826 97
6 Jefferson's First Argument: An Expressed Opinion Can Never Constitute an Overt Act 107
7 Jefferson's Second Argument: If Conscience Is the Umpire, Then Each Judge's Conscience Will Govern 121
8 Jefferson's Third Argument: "We Have Nothing to Fear from the Demoralizing Reasonings of Some, if Others Are Left Free to Demonstrate Their Errors" 127
9 Jefferson's Fourth Argument: "The Law Stands Ready to Punish the First Criminal Act Produced by the False Reasoning" 133
10 Jefferson's Fifth Argument: "These Are Safer Correctives than the Conscience of a Judge" 139
Pt. IV What Would Jefferson Say About Terrorism and Freedom of Speech Today?
11 Jefferson's Views on the "Terrorism" of His Era 147
12 Jefferson's Actions in the Burr Case 153
13 Jefferson's Views on Torture, Habeas Corpus, and Other Issues Currently Debated in the Context of Terrorism 169
14 How Would Jefferson Strike the Balance between Freedom of Speech and Prevention of Terrorism? 181
15 My View, as Influenced by Jefferson and the Experiences of Our Time 189
App. A A Transcript of the Jefferson Letter and a Letterpress Copy 195
App. B Excerpted from "Discourse: Truth Its Own Test and God Its Only Judge" 199
Notes 209
Index 235
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Adam Mcintyre
reviewed Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism on December 24, 2012
Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism
The premise of the book is interesting. The author, a law professor and avid collector, found a letter on some of Thomas Jefferson's views on freedom of speech. Despite the interesting premise, it book itself ends up being fairly unengaging, although it does make some interesting points.
The weakness of the book seems to be that it is trying to do too much in one book, and, as such, ends up diluting the strength of each part. The first part is almost of memoir of Dershowitz's letter collecting hobby. As someone who personally does not see the appeal of collecting, I found this rather dull. He then told the story of discovering the Jefferson letter. This was more interesting.
However, the letter itself is rather short. Only a couple of paragraphs long. The rest of the book is a response to the letter. Since the letter itself is so short, the rest of the book feels stretched. Dershowitz does a good job of pulling in other materials to give more context to the letter and support to his views of it, but still, it feels like he had a strong essay that he expanded into an okay book.
Overall, the book was not a bad read, but I cannot really recommend it either.
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