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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451608503321

Autore

White G. Edward

Titolo

Oliver Wendell Holmes : sage of the Supreme Court / / G. Edward White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

0-19-802763-X

1-280-56412-1

1-4237-7428-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 p. ) : ill., map ;

Collana

Oxford portraits

Disciplina

347.73/2634

B

Soggetti

Judges - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-146) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.