TY  - BOOK
AU  - Healy,Thomas
TI  - The great dissent: how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America 
SN  - 9781250058690
AV  - KF 224 H434g 2014
U1  - 342.7308/53 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - Abrams, J.,
KW  - Abrams, J. 
KW  - Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 
KW  - Trials (Anarchy)
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Juicios
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - United States
KW  - Libertad de expresión
KW  - Judicial process
KW  - Proceso judicial
KW  - Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
N1  - 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."
N2  - 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

ER  -