"Overall, this is an excellent book. It offers a comprehensive history of one of the Supreme Court’s seminal First Amendment decisions, and it does so without boring the layman reader."—Law and Politics Book Review
"Will provide the general reader and those readers in the field of education with an interesting, articulately written account of the way a constitutional issue arose in the lives of real people and was pursued in the courts."—H-Net Reviews
"The Struggle for Student Rights is a splendid example of the case study method used to its best advantage. Johnson not only sheds light on the history of American constitutional law and the Supreme Court,but also brings new insight to the question of why a group of clean-cut Iowa teenagers would defy authority and boldly assert their constitutional rights to be heard."—Annals of Iowa
"This is a story well told with engaging information in every chapter."—Journal of American History
"With concrete detail, it successfully evokes the circumstances through which a few ordinary people, with no ambitions for fame, became involved in a landmark Supreme Court case."—American Historical Review
"Johnson’s sensitive and perceptive treatment of Tinker should make all of us aware that teaching students to be good citizens requires far more than drilling them on facts and dates; it requires, as the Supreme Court noted, that we teach democracy by example. This book ought to be required reading for anyone interested in the connection between democracy and education."—Melvin I. Urofsky, author of A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States
"Johnson tells a fascinating story embedded in a rich guide to federal courts at work. Give this book to everyone you know who is in high school or was recently there."—Linda K. Kerber, author of Toward an Intellectual History of Women
"An immensely readable legal history of a landmark Supreme Court ruling and a compelling and intensely personal story about the lives and beliefs of the central figures in the case. A major contribution."—Melvin Small, author of Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti–Vietnam War Movement
"A careful and readable study of the first major Supreme Court decision to protect students’ freedom of expression from school boards’ strict local control."—Paul L. Murphy, author of World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States
