Great Dissent

Unleash your inner history buff with this gripping intellectual history book, exploring how conservative justice Oliver Wendell Holmes established modern understanding of the First Amendment. Through newly discovered letters and memos, author Thomas Healy delves into Holmes' journey from free-speech skeptic to First Amendment hero, and the story of a progressive campaign that saved an old man from loneliness and despair. The Great Dissent is a beautifully written and exhaustively researched tale of how free debate can alter the life of a man and the legal landscape of an entire nation.