Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
By: G. Edward White.
Contributors: White, G. Edward.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Lives and legacies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780195305364
Subjects: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894; United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Biography; Judges -- United States -- Biography; Judges
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. ed. of: Oliver Wendell Holmes. c2000.
Table of contents: title: The family legacy : an autobiographical sketch; title: Our hearts were touched with fire : the Civil War years; title: The practical struggle of life : becoming a lawyer and a judge; title: The quiet years; title: A more important and more visible court; title: A new and solemn volume opens; title: An unlikely reformer; title: The yankee from Olympus; title: Toward melancholy : the retirement years.