Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes : Law and the Inner Self
By any measure, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., led a full and remarkable life. He was tall and exceptionally attractive, especially as he aged, with piercing eyes, a shock of white hair, and prominent moustache. He was the son of a famous father (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., renowned for ""TheAutocrat of the Breakfast Table""), a thrice-wounded veteran of the Civil War, a Harvard-educated member of Brahmin Boston, the acquaintance of Longfellow, Lowell, and Emerson, and for a time a close friend of William James. He wrote one of the classic works of American legal scholarship, The CommonLaw, and h
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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: Heritage
CHAPTER TWO: The Civil War
CHAPTER THREE: Friendships, Companions, and Attachments, 1864-1882
CHAPTER FOUR: Coming to Maturity: Early Legal Scholarship
CHAPTER FIVE: The Common Law
CHAPTER SIX: "An All Round View of the Law," 1882-1902
CHAPTER SEVEN Travel and Romance
CHAPTER EIGHT The Supreme Judicial Court of massachusetts
CHAPTER NINE: The Supreme Court, 1903-1916
CHAPTER TEN: Recognition. CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Supreme Court, 1917-1931: The "Progressive" Judge
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Supreme Court, 1917-1931: FREE SPEECH
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Aging
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A Concluding Assessment
APPENDIX: Holmes' Secretaries
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
INDEX