The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.
2013
KF224.A34 H43 2013 (Mapit)
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Author
Title
The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.
Edition
First Edition.
Imprint
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
Description
322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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."
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."
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF224.A34 H43 2013
Language
English
ISBN
0805094563 hardcover
9780805094565 hardcover
9780805094565 hardcover
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