352 pages
English language
Published Feb. 20, 2014 by Picador.
Great Dissent
How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind - And Changed the History of Free Speech in America
by Thomas Healy
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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
- Holmes, oliver wendell, 1841-1935
- Freedom of speech
- Anarchism
- Trials, united states