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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / G. Edward White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, G. Edward, author.
- Series:
- Lives and legacies.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 161 pages) illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This biography of one of the most important figures ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court traces Holmes's life from his early years in Boston, his undergraduate years in Harvard, his service in the Civil War and into legal practice. It then focuses on his 30 years service as a Supreme Court Justice.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-154) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772005-6
- 0-19-029408-6
- 1-280-53475-3
- 0-19-972690-6
- 1-4294-0359-4
- OCLC:
- 870243388
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