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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.
Van Pelt Library KF224.A34 H43 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Healy, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abrams, J., 1886-1953--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Abrams, J.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell.
- Abrams, J., 1886-1953.
- Trials (Anarchy)--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Trials (Anarchy).
- Freedom of speech--United States.
- Freedom of speech.
- History.
- United States.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
- 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.
- 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."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805094565
- 0805094563
- OCLC:
- 811597495
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