[Read download] The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
·•●- Thomas Healy ·•●-
| #875113 in Books | 2014-09-09 | 2014-09-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.93 x6.19l,.0 | File Name: 1250058694 | 352 pages
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Justice Holmes reconsiders the First Amendment|By Ronald H. Clark|I think this is a valuable book for several reasons. First, I love to read books about Justice Holmes and this is a very good one. While there is nothing startlingly new about OWH here, for the reader less familiar with the Justice, this book is a good introduction--especially since the author relies heavily u|From Booklist|A longtime skeptic of individual rights, Supreme Court justice Holmes wrote in 1919 the court opinion that solidified free speech rights in American political doctrine. Holmes’ change of heart
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. Indeed, free speech as we know it comes less from the First Amendment than from a most unexpected source: Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. A lifelong skeptic, he disdained all individual rights, including the right...
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