Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. : the Supreme Court and American legal thought
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a member of Boston's elite, a thrice-wounded Union soldier, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a professor of law, a celebrated legal scholar, and a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He is best remembered, however, as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a position he held for thirty years, from 1902 to 1932
Biography
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.
9781404226524, 1404226524
52388215
Growing up in Boston
Serving in the Civil war
A young lawyer and the common law
Becoming a judge
An appointment to the United States Supreme Court
"Fundamental principles"
Congress and child labor
Free speech and the First Amendment
World War I changes everything
Final years