Robert

Tsai

Law, Politics, Imagination

Advance Praise for Eloquence and Reason:

Creating a First Amendment Culture

"Just when I thought that there was nothing new to say about the First Amendment, Robert Tsai comes along and writes a book which encourages me to think again."

--Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

"Eloquence and Reason is groundbreaking. Its depiction of the interplay between the Supreme Court and the executive branch over free speech issues in the nineteen forties sheds new light on the origins of modern constitutional law and the role the executive plays in the evolution of legal doctrine. It also offers an original and powerful, though surely controversial, account of the relationship between language and power in political discourse."

-H. Jefferson Powell, Professor of Law, Duke University, author of Constitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision

"A provocative meditation on the ways metaphors used in constitutional doctrine empower, limit, create, and recreate the public over which the written Constitution is said to assert authority. Intriguing case studies arise from the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the Christian Right of the 1980s, and the attacks on Jehovah's Witnesses in the 1940s."

--Mark V. Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School