Rich in historical detail, Images of a Free Press is an elegant, powerful guide to the evolution of our modern conception of freedom of the press and its strengths and weaknesses. The sweeping constitutional freedoms extended to the press in the wake of the landmark 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan are now being called into question by growing concern over the power of the press, the concentration of its ownership, and the troubling rise of entertainment masquerading as hard news.