The Great Dissent : : how Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed his Mind-- and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
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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."
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780805094565 (hbk.)
0805094563 (hbk.)
SUBJECTS
Abrams, J., -- 1886-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, -- 1841-1935.
Trials (Anarchy) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Freedom of speech -- United States.
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)