That Remarkable Man (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Edith Patterson Meyer
- First Published: 1967
- Time of Work: 1841–1935
- Setting: Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Amelia Holmes, Amelia Holmes, Ned Holmes, Fanny Dixwell Holmes, John Holmes, Grandmother Holmes, Louis Brandeis
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Civil War, Historians, Lawyers, Judges, Biography, Courts or courtrooms
- Locales: Washington, D.C., Massachusetts
Form and Content
In That Remarkable Man: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edith Patterson Meyer writes specifically for young people. The biography, arranged in thirteen fairly short chapters, covers chronologically the ninety-four years of the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., from 1841 to 1935. Meyer includes illustrations, a list of other books by and about Holmes, and an index.
Although the first two chapters of the book present Holmes’s boyhood and his Harvard undergraduate education, the character of young Holmes is scarcely distinguishable from the...
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