The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, New York : Picador, 2014Description: 322 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250058690
- 1250058694
- Abrams, J., 1886-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Abrams, J. (Jacob), 1886-1953 -- Juicios, litigios, etc
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935
- Trials (Anarchy) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 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)
- 342.7308/53
- KF 224 H434g 2014
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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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