To order books using a check or money order from DDF:

  • First Amendment Felon - $16.95 plus $5.00 shipping
  • Terrorism & the Constitution - $15.96 plus $5.00 shiipping
  • FBI & the First Amendment - $7.50 plus $3.00 shipping
  • Thought Control and Repression - $7.50 plus $3.00 shipping

For any of the books, people can send a check or money order for the book(s) to:

Defending Dissent Foundation
1100 Wayne Ave. #1020
Silver Spring, MD 20910

The books may also be ordered directly from Powells or Amazon using a credit card.


First
Amendment
Felon

The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000-Page FBI File, and His Epic Fight for Civil Rights and Liberties

Robert Sherrill
Nation Books
November 2005
ISBN: 1560257792

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Read More About the Book and Frank Wilkinson

Robert Sherrill's book on the life and times of Frank Wilkinson has been published and is now available at Powell's, Amazon, and maybe even your local bookstore! We are currently seeking to enlist folks, including those who experienced our government’s abuses of dissenters, to help us publicize and do readings of the book, and help build a bigger movement to resist further abuses.

Terrorism and the Constitution:
Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the
Name of National Security, 2nd ed.,
by James X. Dempsey & David Cole

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In a vivid and important critique of our government’s response to terrorist threats, two leading constitutional scholars warn that many anti-terrorism efforts needlessly sacrifice civil liberties without effectively protecting national security.

Cole and Dempsey contend that in its response to the attacks of September 11, the Bush administration has already repeated many of the worst mistakes of the past, and is unlikely to make Americans more secure.

“Should be read by anyone who cares about civil liberties.”
-Victor Navasky, The Nation

James X. Dempsey & David Cole
The New Press
2006
ISBN: 1565849396


Thought Control and Repression During the Reagan-Bush Era
by Richard O. Curry


“This is a chilling tale, or rather several tales. In lean and often understated prose, Richard Curry details how our government for twelve years has flouted the law, shown contempt for it. Whether we examine restrictions on art or civil rights, internal security investigations or restraints on the press, the ‘war on drugs’ or dilution of habeas corpus, secret laws or secret government, litmus tests for Supreme Court Justices or intimidation of potential whistle blowers, the pattern is the same: invasion of individual rights and a centralization of executive power.”
-Norman Dorsen, Stokes Professor of Law, New York University Law School, President of the ACLU 1976-1991

Richard O. Curry
F irst Amendment Foundation
1992
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The FBI v. The First Amendment
by Richard Criley

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“Criley has written an important cautionary warning for our time. Drawing upon FBI records, Criley documents the FBI’s secret assistance to conservative activists (in Congress, the media, and right wing organizations) for the purpose of containing a movement exercising and promoting First Amendment rights. That this effort failed to meet its major objective is not wholly comforting as FBI officials had been able to do what, under the law and the Constitution, they should not have been able to do.”
-Professor Athan Theoharis, Marquette University

Richard Criley
F irst Amendment Foundation
1990
ISBN: 0962770507

 
 
 

 

 

Bill of Rights

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.