Healy, Thomas

The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy. - 322 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


9781250058690 1250058694

2012047539


Abrams, J., 1886-1953 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Abrams, J. 1886-1953 --Juicios, litigios, etc.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935


Trials (Anarchy)--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Juicios --Estados Unidos
Freedom of speech--United States.
Libertad de expresión--Estados Unidos
Judicial process--United States.
Proceso judicial--Estados Unidos

Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)

KF 224 / H434g 2014

342.7308/53