Oliver Wendell Holmes : sage of the Supreme Court /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: White, G. Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
Series:Oxford portraits.
Subjects:
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > Jr., > 1841-1935 > Juvenile literature.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > 1841-1935.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > Jr., > 1841-1935
Judges > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Judges.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Judges
United States
Biographies
Juvenile works
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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