The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
by Thomas Healy
3.5
2013 · 337 pages
About The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
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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