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Thurman Arnold : a biography / Spencer Weber Waller.

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LIBRA KF373.A7 W35 2005
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Waller, Spencer Weber.
Contributor:
Arnold, Thurman Wesley, 1891-1969.
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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