-RESTRICTING FREEDOMS: LIMITATIONS ON THE INDIVIDUAL IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA provides a powerful and in-depth survey for college-level social and political studies collections that considers how America's society operates with restrictions on all kinds of civil rights, from medicine and religion to speech. The question -how can there be real freedom with restrictions- is asked, and answered in chapters that consider the relationship between freedom and restrictions. Any collection strong in debates over American civil liberties, freedoms, censorship and modern American society needs this in-depth discussion.-
California Bookwatch
-The authors are brilliant researchers with good documentation, who make a solid case of how restrictions, meaning different things to different people, are changing America and how society as a whole will react. It is a worthwhile read for historians.-
-- Rev. Austin Miles, RenewAmerica.com
-This is an important, iconoclastic, and informative book. The authors observe that Americans romanticize freedom, while America, like all other societies, operates with restrictions on sexual practices, religion, medicine, and speech. In the current context of anti-government populism, concern about 'free markets, ' and debates about the role of government in a democracy, Shlapentokh and Beasley chart a sensible, evocative, and balanced course. They connect powerfully freedom and restriction. They conclude that there is a dialectic relationship at work: freedom requires restrictions.-
--Peter Manning, Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Northeastern University
-Shlapentokh has an uncanny ability to address issues otherwise ignored in American social science. In this volume he and his co-author illustrate the lopsided nature of both theoretical and empirical studies of freedom in America, conclusively showing that restrictions are both commonplace and necessary if freedom of any sort is to be achieved. Moreover, they show how the interplay of law and tradition is far more complex and interwoven than usually understood. Anyone interested in understanding American society in all its complexity should read this volume.-
--Lawrence Busch, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
"RESTRICTING FREEDOMS: LIMITATIONS ON THE INDIVIDUAL IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA provides a powerful and in-depth survey for college-level social and political studies collections that considers how America's society operates with restrictions on all kinds of civil rights, from medicine and religion to speech. The question "how can there be real freedom with restrictions" is asked, and answered in chapters that consider the relationship between freedom and restrictions. Any collection strong in debates over American civil liberties, freedoms, censorship and modern American society needs this in-depth discussion."
California Bookwatch
"The authors are brilliant researchers with good documentation, who make a solid case of how restrictions, meaning different things to different people, are changing America and how society as a whole will react. It is a worthwhile read for historians."
-- Rev. Austin Miles, RenewAmerica.com
"This is an important, iconoclastic, and informative book. The authors observe that Americans romanticize freedom, while America, like all other societies, operates with restrictions on sexual practices, religion, medicine, and speech. In the current context of anti-government populism, concern about 'free markets, ' and debates about the role of government in a democracy, Shlapentokh and Beasley chart a sensible, evocative, and balanced course. They connect powerfully freedom and restriction. They conclude that there is a dialectic relationship at work: freedom requires restrictions."
--Peter Manning, Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Northeastern University
"Shlapentokh has an uncanny ability to address issues otherwise ignored in American social science. In this volume he and his co-author illustrate the lopsided nature of both theoretical and empirical studies of freedom in America, conclusively showing that restrictions are both commonplace and necessary if freedom of any sort is to be achieved. Moreover, they show how the interplay of law and tradition is far more complex and interwoven than usually understood. Anyone interested in understanding American society in all its complexity should read this volume."
--Lawrence Busch, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
"RESTRICTING FREEDOMS: LIMITATIONS ON THE INDIVIDUAL IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA provides a powerful and in-depth survey for college-level social and political studies collections that considers how America's society operates with restrictions on all kinds of civil rights, from medicine and religion to speech. The question "how can there be real freedom with restrictions" is asked, and answered in chapters that consider the relationship between freedom and restrictions. Any collection strong in debates over American civil liberties, freedoms, censorship and modern American society needs this in-depth discussion."
California Bookwatch
"The authors are brilliant researchers with good documentation, who make a solid case of how restrictions, meaning different things to different people, are changing America and how society as a whole will react. It is a worthwhile read for historians."
-- Rev. Austin Miles, RenewAmerica.com
"This is an important, iconoclastic, and informative book. The authors observe that Americans romanticize freedom, while America, like all other societies, operates with restrictions on sexual practices, religion, medicine, and speech. In the current context of anti-government populism, concern about 'free markets, ' and debates about the role of government in a democracy, Shlapentokh and Beasley chart a sensible, evocative, and balanced course. They connect powerfully freedom and restriction. They conclude that there is a dialectic relationship at work: freedom requires restrictions."
--Peter Manning, Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Northeastern University
"Shlapentokh has an uncanny ability to address issues otherwise ignored in American social science. In this volume he and his co-author illustrate the lopsided nature of both theoretical and empirical studies of freedom in America, conclusively showing that restrictions are both commonplace and necessary if freedom of any sort is to be achieved. Moreover, they show how the interplay of law and tradition is far more complex and interwoven than usually understood. Anyone interested in understanding American society in all its complexity should read this volume."
--Lawrence Busch, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
"This is an important, iconoclastic, and informative book. The authors observe that Americans romanticize freedom, while America, like all other societies, operates with restrictions on sexual practices, religion, medicine, and speech. In the current context of anti-government populism, concern about 'free markets, ' and debates about the role of government in a democracy, Shlapentokh and Beasley chart a sensible, evocative, and balanced course. They connect powerfully freedom and restriction. They conclude that there is a dialectic relationship at work: freedom requires restrictions."
--Peter Manning, Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Northeastern University
"Shlapentokh has an uncanny ability to address issues otherwise ignored in American social science. In this volume he and his co-author illustrate the lopsided nature of both theoretical and empirical studies of freedom in America, conclusively showing that restrictions are both commonplace and necessary if freedom of any sort is to be achieved. Moreover, they show how the interplay of law and tradition is far more complex and interwoven than usually understood. Anyone interested in understanding American society in all its complexity should read this volume."
--Lawrence Busch, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
