TY - BOOK AU - Healy,Thomas TI - The great dissent: how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America SN - 9780805094565 AV - KF224.A34 H434g 2013 U1 - 342.7308/53 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, New York PB - Henry Holt and Company KW - Abrams, J., KW - Holmes, Oliver Wendell, KW - Trials (Anarchy) KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Freedom of speech KW - United States KW - Judicial process KW - Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919) N1 - 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" N2 - 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 ER -