In 1939, the Nazis forced her to give the state the painting for the equivalent of about $360 today. In exchange she was given an exit visa to escape Nazi persecution and she eventually settled in the U.S.

More than six decades after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Enrich makes a compelling and alarming case that the legal protections that undergird the free press in this country are on much shakier ground than we may realize.

The real legacy of the case, scholars say, is not its protection of former presidents from prosecution but its expansive understanding of presidential power.