The great dissent
Subtitle: how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America
By: Thomas Healy
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780805094565
Subjects: Trials (Anarchy); Trials, litigation; Freedom of speech; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: an unexpected visit; title: Train fever; title: A smart chap; title: The habit of intolerance; title: Catspawned; title: The old ewe and the half-bakes; title: "He shoots so quickly"; title: Defending sophistries; title: Dangerous men; title: "They know not what they do"; title: The red summer; title: "Workers; title: wake up!; title: A plea for help; title: "Quasi in furore"; title: Adulation; title: "Alone at Laski"; title: Epilogue : "I simply was ignorant."