Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America by Neier, Aryeh
Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America by Neier, Aryeh

Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America

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Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America by Neier, Aryeh

Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America

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Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America by Neier, Aryeh

Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America

$27.52
Author: Aryeh Neier
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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With a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by Nadine Strossen

A new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new chapter by the author on some of the top First Amendment controversies of today

"If Aryeh Neier had done nothing else in his absolutely towering human rights, civil liberties career other than write Defending My Enemy, that still would have made him a hero and a giant."
-Nadine Strossen, former president, American Civil Liberties Union

When Nazis wanted to express their right to free speech in 1977 by marching through Skokie, Illinois--a town with a large population of Holocaust survivors--Aryeh Neier, then the national executive director of the ACLU and himself a Holocaust survivor, came to the Nazis' defense. Explaining what many saw as a despicable bridge too far for the First Amendment, Neier spelled out his thoughts about free speech in his 1979 book Defending My Enemy.


Nearly fifty years later, Neier revisits the topic of free speech in a volume that includes his original essay along with a new chapter addressing present-day First Amendment battles, including the Charlottesville march, book bans, the heckler's veto, attacks on free speech on college campuses, and the threat to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision in The New York Times v. Sullivan.


Including a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by longtime free speech champion Nadine Strossen, Defending My Enemy offers razor-sharp analysis from the man Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute describes as "an icon of justice and fearlessness."




Author: Aryeh Neier
Publisher: New Press
Published: 09/23/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781620979914

About the Author
Aryeh Neier has been the national executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, a co-founder of Human Rights Watch, and the president of the Open Societies Institute. In addition to writing half a dozen books on civil and human rights, he has authored over three hundred op-eds for venues including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and Foreign Policy. The author of Defending My Enemy, he lives in New York City.
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