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Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech
Fighting Faiths The Abrams Case the Supreme Court and Free Speech
Author: Richard Polenberg
Jacob Abrams et al. v. United States is the landmark Supreme Court case in the definition of free speech. Although the 1918 conviction of four Russian Jewish anarchists--for distributing leaflets protesting America's intervention in the Russian revolution--was upheld, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's dissenting opinion (with Justice Louis Brandei...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140117363
ISBN-10: 0140117369
Publication Date: 1/3/1989
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
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