Book 2014

Great Dissent

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Publisher: Picador
Language: English
Published: 2014

Trials (Anarchy)
Trials, litigation
Freedom of speech
History
Trials, united states
Anarchism
Judicial process
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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.