Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Name: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
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ISBN: 9780195305364

ISBN-10: 0195305361

ISBN-13: 9780195305364

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: G. Edward White

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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. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the twentieth century. Now, in this superb short biography, G. Edward White offers readers a lively, informative portrait of this singular individual. The book first sketches Holmes's early years--his childhood in Boston, his undergraduate years at Harvard (which his father and both grandfathers also attended), and his valiant service in the Civil War, during which he was severely wounded three…

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List price: $38.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 8.31" wide x 5.79" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Prologue



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


Epilogue


Notes


Chronology


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author