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In this collection of his speeches, opinions, and letters, Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as judge, historian, philosopher, and master of English style.
Discussion of the views, decisions and influence of Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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interruptions, to E. Phillips Oppenheim. In between we read Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead. Occasionally he would observe, “Sonny,” as he called all of his secretaries, “at ninetyone, one outlives duty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Holmes who emerges from these essays is complex and multifaceted, ornery and brilliant. The Appellate Practice Journal"
The detailed and authoritative biography provides a colorful portrait both on and off the bench, of the most famous Supreme Court Justice our legal system has ever known. This well-researched...
The voluminous literature devoted to his writings and legal thought, however, is diverse and inconsistent. In this study, Frederic R. Kellogg follows Holmes's intellectual path from his early writings through his judicial career.
14 The Holmes Papers in Harvard's Houghton Library include a series of letters from Mitchell ( inquiring about statistics on the " white race , " on tendencies to " degeneracy ” in American women and the avoidance of such degeneration ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.