Routledge has published a new
book on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 Amendment owes much of
its incredible expansion over the last sixty years to Holmes’s judicial
dissents in Abrams and Gitlow.
In this book, John M. Kang offers
the novel thesis that Holmes’s dissenting opinions in Abrams and Gitlow drew
in part from a normative worldview structured by an idiosyncratic manliness, a
manliness which was itself rooted in physical courage. In making this argument,
Kang seeks to show how Holmes’s justification for the right of speech was a bid
to proffer a philosophical commentary about the demands of democracy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John M. Kang is Professor of Law
at St Thomas University, USA. He has published on constitutional law and
masculinity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
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