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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Lives and Legacies)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr - Lives and Legacies
Author: G. Edward White
Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the twentieth century. — Now, in this sup...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195305364
ISBN-10: 0195305361
Publication Date: 3/1/2006
Pages: 176
Edition: 2
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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hardtack avatar reviewed Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Lives and Legacies) on + 2706 more book reviews
An interesting, but brief, biography of one of our nation's most renown Supreme Court justices.

Most interesting is that the book has only 138 pages of text, but on page 61, less than half-way through, the author begins a chapter by writing, "In 1901, as Holmes turned sixty..."

What we have here is a man who is sixty years old, a time when most of us are looking forward to retirement, who was embarking on the greatest, and perhaps most productive, 34 years of his life.

He sounds like an AARP "poster child," but he was simply a man who showed us it is never time to sit back and say, "All done."


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