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

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

Thomas Healy

322 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history reflective slow-paced
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No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise, with Americans regularly imprisoned merely for speaking out against government policies. In...

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