Great Dissent
Thomas Healy's Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia was recommended by a reader of electric city book.
"Indeed, free speech as we know it comes less from the First Constitutional Amendment than from a most unexpected source: Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. A lifelong skeptic, he disdained all individual rights, including the right to express one's political views. But in 1919, it was Holmes who wrote a dissenting opinion that would become the canonical affirmation of free speech in the United States.
Why did Holmes change his mind? That question has puzzled historians for almost a century."
For the People: A Story of Justice and Power
"Readers follow Krasner’s lifelong journey through the streets and courtrooms and election precincts of one American city through his swearing-in ceremony to see how our system of injustice was built—and how we might dismantle it."
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