Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, The Supreme Court, and Free Speech
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140117363 (0140117369)
Publish date: January 3rd 1989
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Abrams et al. v. United States provided Oliver Wendell Holmes with an opportunity to redefine the "clear and present danger" doctrine he had enunciated in the Schenck, Frohwerk, and Debs decisions. The story of the Abrams case and its impact on free speech is engagingly told by Richard Polenberg in ...