LEADER 00000nim 22004095a 4500 003 MWT 005 20160428121449.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 160428s2013 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 9781452696164 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1452696160 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781452696164_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT11019356 037 11019356|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest 082 04 342.7308/53|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Healy, Thomas,|eauthor. 245 14 The great dissent:|bhow Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind--and changed the history of free speech in America |h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cThomas Healy. 250 Unabridged. 260 [United States] :|bTantor Audio :|bMade available through hoopla,|c2013. 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 21 min.)) : |bdigital. 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Danny Campbell. 520 No right seems more fundamental to American public 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 to express one's political views. But in 1919, it was Holmes who wrote a dissenting opinion that would become the canonical affirmation of free speech in the United States. Why did Holmes change his mind? That question has puzzled historians for almost a century. Now, with the aid of newly discovered letters and confidential memos, law professor Thomas Healy reconstructs in vivid detail Holmes's journey from free-speech opponent to First Amendment hero. It is the story of a remarkable behind-the -scenes campaign by a group of progressives to bring a legal icon around to their way of thinking-and a deeply touching human narrative of an old man saved from loneliness and despair by a few unlikely young friends. Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, The Great Dissent is intellectual history at its best, revealing how free debate can alter the life of a man and the legal landscape of an entire nation. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Abrams, J.,|d1886-1953|xTrials, litigation, etc. 600 10 Holmes, Oliver Wendell,|cJr.,|d1841-1935. 650 0 Trials (Anarchy)|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory |y20th century.|vSound recordings. 650 0 Freedom of speech|zUnited States.|vSound recordings. 700 1 Campbell, Danny,|enarrator. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11019356|zInstantly available on hoopla.