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Autore |
White G. Edward |
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Titolo |
Oliver Wendell Holmes : sage of the Supreme Court / / G. Edward White |
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New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2000] |
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©2000 |
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0-19-802763-X |
1-280-56412-1 |
1-4237-7428-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (151 p. ) : ill., map ; |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Judges - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-146) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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