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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Howells, William Dean

Paperback

Series: Literary Friends and Acquaintances

Historical FiguresLiterary Figures

ISBN10: 141913826X
ISBN13: 9781419138263
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.19 Width: 7.60 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Oliver Wendell Holmes is a biography written by William Dean Howells about the famous American jurist and Supreme Court justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The book covers Holmes' life from his birth in 1841 to his death in 1935, tracing his family background, education, legal career, and judicial philosophy. Howells explores Holmes' early influences, including his father, a prominent physician and writer, and his time at Harvard University, where he developed a keen interest in law and philosophy. The book also delves into Holmes' service in the Civil War, his work as a lawyer and legal scholar, and his influential tenure on the Supreme Court, where he became known for his pragmatic approach to jurisprudence and his famous dissents. Through extensive research and analysis, Howells paints a vivid portrait of one of America's most important legal minds, offering insights into his complex personality, his intellectual development, and his enduring impact on American law and society.In the things of the world, he had fences, and looked at some people through palings and even over the broken bottles on the tops of walls; and I think he was the loser by this, as well as they. But then I think all fences are bad, and that God has made enough differences between men; we need not trouble ourselves to multiply them. Even behind his fences, however, Holmes had a heart kind for the outsiders.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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