The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--And Changed the History of Free Speech in America

by Thomas Healy

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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.
  • ISBN10 1429949090
  • ISBN13 9781429949095
  • Publish Date 20 August 2013 (first published 1 August 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Metropolitan Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 336
  • Language English