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“The Great Dissent”: How Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Shaped the First Amendment

“The Great Dissent”: How Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Shaped the First Amendment

The Great Dissent:  How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind—and Changed the History of Free Speech in America by Thomas Healy, published by Picador (September 9, 2014). Every so often you find a book that you never suspect will be one that you just can’t stop reading.  Thomas Healy’s The Great Dissent is one of […]

September 14, 2015
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