Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr / G. Edward White.

By:

White, G. Edward

Contributor(s):

White, G. Edward. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Lives and legaciesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 161 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199726905
0199726906
1429403594
9781429403597
0195305361
9780195305364
1280534753
9781280534751

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.DDC classification:

347.73/2634 B 22

LOC classification:

KF8745.H6 W472 2006eb

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Contents:

The family legacy -- Our hearts were touched with fire : the Civil War years -- The practical struggle of life : becoming a lawyer and a judge -- The quiet years -- A more important and more visible court -- A new and solemn volume opens -- An unlikely reformer -- The yankee from Olympus -- Toward melancholy : the retirement years.

Summary: Known as the 'Great Dissenter, ' Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. Holmes was responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the twentieth century. This biography offers readers a portrait of this singular individual.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-154) and index.

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Known as the 'Great Dissenter, ' Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. Holmes was responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the twentieth century. This biography offers readers a portrait of this singular individual.

English.

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