Cover of The great dissent

The great dissent

by Thomas Healy

2013 322 pages eng

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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