Honorable justice : the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes
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- ISBN: 0316613258
- ISBN: 9780316613255
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Physical Description:
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xxi, 522 p., [16] p. of plates : ill ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, c1989.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1 : A New England boyhood. Fathers and sons -- In the doctor's household -- Education -- Part 2 : The Twentieth Regiment. Swimming in air -- Someone had blundered -- Rain -- The regiment ceases -- Part 3 : The common law. Poet, soldier, gentleman -- The first venture -- Two pillars of his life -- The common law -- Part 4 : An obscure judge. The moving banners of a hidden column -- Courtly love -- Another war -- Lady Castletown -- The path of the law -- Chief Justice -- Part 5 : The master of his art. Washington, D.C. -- Smiles and lies -- Solitude -- Jeu sui arnaut -- The sky aflame -- Olympus -- Final duty -- A ghost on the battlefield -- Appendix A : Chronology of Holmes's life -- Appendix B : A note on sources -- Bibliography of principal works cited -- Table of cases. |
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