Libel and Academic Freedom

Libel and Academic Freedom was first published in 1968.Described as a “Communist collaborator” and a “security risk” in the literature of a right-wing extremist group, Arnold M. Rose brought suit on charges of libel against those who made the statements, Gerda Koch and others. In this book, Mr. Rose, who was a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and president-elect of the American Sociological Association at the time of his death this year [1968], presents an account of the tri