The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America

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Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Selected as one of the best nonfiction books of 2013 by The Christian Science Monitor,  Kirkus Reviews, MLive, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

"Riveting... Healy's informative and readable account deserves an honored place in the intellectual history of the Supreme Court."
—The New York Times Book Review

"Fascinating… A magnificent book about a magnificent moment in American legal history."
—The Atlantic

"Healy tells the conversion story well, bringing the reader into Holmes's confidence and into the uneasy, war-weary milieu of 1919 America. The Great Dissent is compelling, too, for the glimpses it gives of the human Holmes rather than the Olympian public figure.