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The Great Dissent

The Christian Science Monitor

The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind – and Changed the History of Free Speech in America, by Thomas Healy, Henry Holt & Co., 336 pages This absorbing book is about the law, which for all its grandeur is a moving target.