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Author Healy, Thomas, author.

Title The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  342.0853 H349g 2013    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
Contents 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".
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.
Subject Abrams, J., 1886-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
Trials (Anarchy) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Freedom of speech -- United States.
Judicial process -- United States.
Abrams, J., 1886-1953. (OCoLC)fst00351211
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935. (OCoLC)fst00035436
Freedom of speech. (OCoLC)fst00934044
Judicial process. (OCoLC)fst00984705
Trials. (OCoLC)fst01156290
Trials (Anarchy) (OCoLC)fst01156300
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780805094565
0805094563

 
    
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