03589nam 2200601 450 991045169620332120211005104054.01-280-53475-30-19-972690-61-4294-0359-4(CKB)1000000000465717(StDuBDS)AH24087442(SSID)ssj0000214433(PQKBManifestationID)12024748(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214433(PQKBWorkID)10156641(PQKB)10889246(MiAaPQ)EBC272409(Au-PeEL)EBL272409(CaPaEBR)ebr11303237(CaONFJC)MIL53475(OCoLC)870243388(MiAaPQ)EBC5745814(EXLCZ)99100000000046571720161205h20062006 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrOliver Wendell Holmes Jr. /G. Edward WhiteNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2006.©20061 online resource (viii, 161 p. ) illLives and LegaciesFormerly CIP.Uk0-19-530536-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.This biography of one of the most important figures ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court traces Holmes's life from his early years in Boston, his undergraduate years in Harvard, his service in the Civil War and into legal practice. It then focuses on his 30 years service as a Supreme Court Justice.Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the twentieth century. Now, in this superb short biography, G. Edward White offers readers a lively, informative portrait of this singular individual. The book first sketches Holmes's early years--his childhood in Boston, his undergraduate years at Harvard (which his father and both grandfathers also attended), and his valiant service in the Civil War, during which he was severely wounded three times. After the war, Holmes went into private law practice, wrote his landmark treatise The Common Law in 1881, had a short tenure on the Harvard Law School faculty, and spent 20 years as a judge on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts before being named to the U.S. Supreme Court. The author focuses on his remarkable 30-year service as a Supreme Court Justice, beginning in 1902, and details Holmes's most significant cases--Abrams v. United States, Northern Securities Co. v. United States, Lochner v. New York, Schenck v. United States, and others--which limited working hours, set a mandatory minimum wage, protected women's rights, legalized labor unions, and defined freedom of speech. These decisions--as well as The Common Law--are highly regarded to this day. A new volume in the Lives and Legacy series, this marvelous short biography offers an ideal introduction to a towering figure in American law.Lives and legacies.JudgesUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Judges347.732634White G. Edward307837MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451696203321Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr1217195UNINA