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The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America
- Title
- The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.
- Author
- Healy, Thomas
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-308) and index.
- Contents
- 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."
- Call Number
- JFE 13-7886
- ISBN
- 0805094563 (hardcover)
- 9780805094565 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2012047539
- OCLC
- 811597495
- Author
- Healy, Thomas, author.
- Title
- The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.
- Publisher
- New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-308) and index.
- Indexed Term
- Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-7886