Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part One. Point and Counterpoint
1. The Man Who Had To Leave Town
2. "Heed Their Rising Voices"
3. An Uncommon Common Law
4. The First Amendment
Part Two. Public Officials, Public Figures and Private Persons
5. Anything That Touches on Fitness for Office
6. The Tale of the Furtive Night Watchman
7. Into the Vortex of Public Controversy
8. The Big Football Fix
9. The Frame-Up of Officer Nuccio
10. The Golden Fleece of the Month Award
11. The Reluctant Soviet Agent
12. Special Cases: Unlimited, Irrelevant and Involuntary Public Figures
13. Strictly Business
14. Purely Private Libels
Part Three. Other Aspects of Defamation and False Light
15. Group Libels
16. Looking for Love? Sorry, Wrong Number
17. Blackmail, Treason, Hypocrisy and Lies
18. La Cosa Nostra at Your Service
19. The Greatest Analyst Who Ever Lived
20. Five Scientists Who Were Paid To Lie
21. The Airman Who Almost Fell to Earth
Part Four. Procedural Issues And the Path to Reform
22. Actual Malice at Issue
23. The Losing Game
24. Bring in Da Plea Bring in Da Writ
25. Possible Pitfalls
26. Paths Not Taken
Part Five. Privacy and the Press
27. The Right to Privacy
28. Genius, Hero, Maverick, Threat
29. The Man Who Would Be Woman
30. Paparazzi
31. Intrusions on Private Domains
32. Broken Promises
33. Deception and Subterfuge
34. After the Pentagon Papers
Part Six. Fact, Fiction and Future
35. The Adventures of Artemus Jones
36. Justice a la Corrigan
37. The Impact of the Internet
38. Concluding Observations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Libel and slander United States, Privacy, Right of United States, Libel and slander United States Cases, Privacy, Right of United States Cases