322 pages
English language
Published Feb. 20, 2013
The 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
- Trials (Anarchy)
- Trials, litigation
- Freedom of speech
- History
Places
- United States
- New York (State)
- New York