Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. /

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...

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Main Author: White, G. Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006
Series:Lives and legacies.
Subjects:
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > Jr., > 1841-1935.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > 1809-1894.
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Biography.
Judges > United States > Biography.
Judges.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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