Mr. Justice Holmes (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Clara Ingram Judson
- First Published: 1956
- Time of Work: 1848–1934
- Setting: Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Fannie Dixwell Holmes, James Bradley Thayer
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Justice, Family or family life, Education or educators, Law or legislation, Civil War, Lawyers, Judges, Biography, Courts or courtrooms, Legal ethics
- Locales: Boston, MA, Washington, D.C., Cambridge, MA
Form and Content
Clara Ingram Judson’s Mr. Justice Holmes narrates the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., from his boyhood to his death at the age of ninety-three after thirty years of service as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. The book’s early chapters emphasize young Holmes’s sense of his country’s revolutionary origins, as reflected in his grandparents’ stories. Chapters covering Holmes’s early adulthood describe his student years at Harvard University, where his philosophical interests began to emerge, and his service for three...
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