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Thurman Arnold : a biography / Spencer Weber Waller.
LIBRA KF373.A7 W35 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waller, Spencer Weber.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969.
- Arnold, Thurman Wesley.
- Lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- United States.
- Law teachers--United States--Biography.
- Law teachers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- One of the few individuals who shaped twentieth-century American law in so many of its facets and Waller honors his life and legacy with a book that is both vividly narrated and extensively researched.
- Contents:
- The spirit of the West
- A young lawyer and the war
- Small town lawyer and politician
- An academic entrepreneur
- Legal realist and firebrand
- Trustbuster
- The short unhappy judgeship of Thurman Arnold
- A firm beginning
- Building a Washington law firm
- Final fights.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-249) and index.
- "Principal writings of Thurman Arnold": pages 207-211.
- ISBN:
- 0814793924
- OCLC:
- 59756114
- Publisher Number:
- 9780814793923
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