Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: G. Edward White
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1841-1935
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Intellectuals, Law or legislation, Civil War, Judges, Constitutional law, Courts or courtrooms
- Locales: United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is probably the most celebrated figure in the history of American law. He continues to be recognized for his early achievements as a legal scholar and his distinguished career as a judge, most notably his long tenure as a justice of the United States Supreme Court.
As biographer G. Edward White points out, there have been many scholarly studies of Holmes’s life, yet there has been little attention paid the influence of his private life upon his public career. White’s intuition is that the two spheres in which Holmes himself commonly divided his...
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