The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America /
Healy, Thomas
The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy. - First edition. - 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
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".
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
9780805094565
2012047539
Abrams, J., 1886-1953 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
Trials (Anarchy)--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Freedom of speech--United States.
Judicial process--United States.
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
KF224.A34 / H434g 2013
342.7308/53
The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy. - First edition. - 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
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".
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
9780805094565
2012047539
Abrams, J., 1886-1953 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
Trials (Anarchy)--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Freedom of speech--United States.
Judicial process--United States.
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
KF224.A34 / H434g 2013
342.7308/53