Thomas Powers

Thomas Powers, a former Commonweal columnist, is the author of ten books and is currently working on a memoir of his father, who was born in Kentucky and went to school in Illinois, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri, California, and Texas before he was eighteen.

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Right-to-Reply Laws

… Publishing Company v. Pat L. Tornillo and the law at issue is an alluringly-named Florida … expected to pass any Supreme Court-approved law which would take some of the sting out of … Court ruled in his favor, arguing that the law enhanced rather than compromised freedom …
By Thomas Powers
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Accidental Selections

The books I’m recommending here I more or less bumped into by accident, usually when some reviewer or author of a memoir took the trouble to cite something good.
By Thomas Powers
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