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YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS Justice Holmes and His Family
YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS Justice Holmes and His Family Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen Bantam Books No. NC205; 4th printing Jan 1964. Bowen's excellent biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841 - 1935), United States Supreme Court Justice (1902 - 1932), and his family, a description in detail through one family and the people they knew of the United States in the 19th Century. Holmes was one of the more intelligent, witty,... more » liberal, understanding people ever to sit on the Supreme Court. The biography is divided into five parts: his grandfather and father (the novelist); his civil war experience; his life as a lawyer; his time on the Massachusetts Supreme Court; and his time in Washington.« less