Outspoken: Free Speech Stories University of California Press Oct. 2003 isbn: 0520223705 $29.95 Other Books by Nan Levinson

Harvard Book Store Author Series Presents:

Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Friday, October 3rd Nan Levinson will be reading from her book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories. With the government granting itself sweeping new surveillance powers, castigating its critics as unpatriotic, and equating differing opinions with abetting "America's enemies," free speech seems an early casualty of the war on terrorism. But as this book brilliantly demonstrates, to sacrifice our freedom of speech is to surrender the very heart and soul of America.

Nan Levinson tells the stories of twenty people who refused to let anyone whittle away at their right to speak, think, create, or demur as they pleased. Among these sometimes unlikely defenders of the cause of free speech are a diplomat who disclosed secret information about government misconduct in Guatemala, a Puerto Rican journalist who risked going to prison to protect her sources, a high school teacher who discussed gays and lesbians in literature, a fireman who fought for his right to read Playboy at work, and a former porn star who defended her performance piece as art.

Nan Levinson

Author Biography:

Nan Levinson is a journalist in Boston and a lecturer at Tufts University.