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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.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, New York : Picador, 2014Description: 322 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250058690
  • 1250058694
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.7308/53
LOC classification:
  • KF 224 H434g 2014
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."
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.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) KF 224 H434g 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000199045

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.

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