Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
By: G. Edward White.
Contributors: White, G. Edward.
Series: Lives and legacies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: 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 (p. 153-154) and index.
Table of contents: title: The family legacy; 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.