TY - BOOK AU - White,G.Edward AU - White,G.Edward TI - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr T2 - Lives and legacies SN - 9780199726905 AV - KF8745.H6 W472 2006eb U1 - 347.73/2634B 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Holmes, Oliver Wendell, KW - United States KW - Supreme Court KW - Officials and employees KW - Biography KW - États-Unis KW - Fonctionnaires KW - Biographies KW - fast KW - Judges KW - Juges KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION KW - Social Science KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Biography & Autobiography KW - Employees KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-154) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=169191 ER -