Learned Hand
Subtitle: the man and the judge
By: Gerald Gunther ; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195377774
Subjects: Hand, Learned, -- 1872-1961; United States. -- Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) -- Biography; Judges -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years; title: Learned Hand and Frances Fincke; title: From Wall Street lawyer to federal district judge; title: The marriage and its tensions; title: The peak of political enthusiasm : Herbert Croly, Theodore Roosevelt, and the progressive years; title: Promotion to the Second Circuit; title: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1920s and 1930s : Hand as first among equals; title: Achieving national renown during the nation's complacent years, 1919-1928; title: The Hoover years and Hand's missed chance for promotion to the Supreme Court; title: The new deal; title: The road to war and the break with Lippmann; title: The chief judgeship and World War II; title: The last chance for a Supreme Court appointment : the 1942 vacancy; title: The postwar years, the Cold War, and Mccarthyism; title: Active retirement from "regular active service".