LEADER 03589nam 2200601 450 001 9910451696203321 005 20211005104054.0 010 $a1-280-53475-3 010 $a0-19-972690-6 010 $a1-4294-0359-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000465717 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087442 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000214433 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12024748 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214433 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10156641 035 $a(PQKB)10889246 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC272409 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL272409 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11303237 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53475 035 $a(OCoLC)870243388 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5745814 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000465717 100 $a20161205h20062006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOliver Wendell Holmes Jr. /$fG. Edward White 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 161 p. ) $cill 225 1 $aLives and Legacies 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-19-530536-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis 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. 330 $bKnown as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the twentieth century. Now, in this superb short biography, G. Edward White offers readers a lively, informative portrait of this singular individual. The book first sketches Holmes's early years--his childhood in Boston, his undergraduate years at Harvard (which his father and both grandfathers also attended), and his valiant service in the Civil War, during which he was severely wounded three times. After the war, Holmes went into private law practice, wrote his landmark treatise The Common Law in 1881, had a short tenure on the Harvard Law School faculty, and spent 20 years as a judge on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts before being named to the U.S. Supreme Court. The author focuses on his remarkable 30-year service as a Supreme Court Justice, beginning in 1902, and details Holmes's most significant cases--Abrams v. United States, Northern Securities Co. v. United States, Lochner v. New York, Schenck v. United States, and others--which limited working hours, set a mandatory minimum wage, protected women's rights, legalized labor unions, and defined freedom of speech. These decisions--as well as The Common Law--are highly regarded to this day. A new volume in the Lives and Legacy series, this marvelous short biography offers an ideal introduction to a towering figure in American law. 410 0$aLives and legacies. 606 $aJudges$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJudges 676 $a347.732634 700 $aWhite$b G. Edward$0307837 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451696203321 996 $aOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr$91217195 997 $aUNINA