Oliver Wendell Holmes : sage of the Supreme Court
Title:
Oliver Wendell Holmes : sage of the Supreme Court
Author:
White, G. Edward.
ISBN:
9780195116670
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
Physical Description:
151 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Series:
Oxford portraits
Oxford portraits.
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.
Abstract:
A biography of the well-known philosopher and judge, with emphasis on his influential thirty-year tenure as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Local Note:
Gift - John D. Fassett.
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/99034529-d.html