174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has been, and continues to be, praised as America’s greatest judge and he is widely considered to have done more than anyone else to breathe life into the Constitution’s right of free speech, probably the most crucial right for democracy. One indeed finds among professors of constitutional law and federal judges the widespread belief that the scope of the First... Read more
Preface
Chapter One: The Father and the Hero
Chapter Two: A Collegiate Manliness
Chapter Three: Reasons for Fighting in the War
Chapter Four: The Experience of War: "A Splendid Carelessness for Life"
Chapter Five: Faith through Fire
Chapter Six: The Famous Cases: Abrams and Gitlow
Chapter 7: Holmes’s Change of Mind
Chapter 8: Gender and Citizenship
Conclusion
Index
Biography
John M. Kang is Professor of Law at St Thomas University, USA. He has published on constitutional law and masculinity.
