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The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.

Summary:

Based on newly discovered letters and memos, this riveting scholarly history of the conservative justice who became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment reconstructs his journey from free-speech skeptic to First Amendment hero.

Record details

ISBN: 9780805094565
Physical Description: 322 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: an unexpected visit -- Train fever -- A smart chap -- The habit of intolerance -- Catspawned -- The old ewe and the half-bakes -- "He shoots so quickly" -- Defending sophistries -- Dangerous men -- "They know not what they do" -- The red summer -- "Workers--wake up!" -- A plea for help -- "Quasi in furore" -- Adulation -- "Alone at Laski" -- Epilogue : "I simply was ignorant."