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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.
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Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind - And Changed the History of Free Speech in America
2014, Picador
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The great dissent: how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind-- and changed the history of free speech in America
2013, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
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Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--And Changed the History of Free Speech in America
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Table of 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."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-308) and index.
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