zengers anger -- when was tried, there was a move that could criticize the government even though it was illegal. what happened with the current and james franklin, benjamin franklin would continue to talk about a free press in his newspaper and that influenced everything that followed. thank you very much. [applause] hilary: thank you, stephen. thank you, ""book tv"" for being here. i will clear the chairs out of the way and books are for sale in the next room. thank you, all. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer 1: history bookshelf features the best-known american history writers over the past decade talking about their books . you can watch our weekly series ever saturday 4:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv on c-span3. ♪ announcer 2: c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from the presidential primaries through the impeachment process and now