The First Amendment at the Close of the Millenium 
 
Daivd Lance Goines. 
 
Saint Hieronymous Press: 1994. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Ink mark across the title by the "Roll." Stain across the inside panels of the jacket. A couple of smail stains on the front board. A dot of a stain on the fore edge. The last pages are rippled. 61 pages. Very good. 
 
A powerful pamphlet for a damaged cultural and political moment in the '90s when free speech was under attack. Here the legendary Berkeley printer-weirdo combines two ideals: book as a beautiful art object and polemic as clear and researched argument. 
 
"The Framers of the Constitution recognized that most social ills result from conflicts over things that cannot be reconciled, and they created social and political machinery that allowed the expression of differing opinions but prevented any one opinion from taking over and squelching the others. That is the purpose of the First Amendment. The President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, does not agree."