The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America
Title:
The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America
Author:
Healy, Thomas, author.
ISBN:
9780805094565
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Edition.
Physical Description:
322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
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."
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Copy 2 - Gift - John D. Fassett.