The Great Dissent

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year: “Fascinating . . . A magnificent book about a magnificent moment in American legal history.” — The Atlantic A Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century, that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise, with Americans regularly imprisoned merely for speaking out against government policies. Indeed, free speech as we kn