Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-146) and index.
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1841-1935
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.,1841-1935.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1841-1935.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1841-1935.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Judges-- United States, Biography, Juvenile literature.