Mr. Justice Holmes;
A biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., describing his early education at dame and latin schools and Harvard College, his years of military service during the Civil War, his study of law, his work on The Common Law and his years as lawyer and judge in Massachusetts and as justice of the Supreme C...
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Chicago,
Follett Pub. Co.
[1956]
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Table of Contents:
- A Boston boy
- Latin school
- A fugitive slave
- Years of growing
- Senior year
- In his country's service
- War in the South
- "My hunt for the captain"
- What next?
- Law student
- A lawyer's oath
- Getting his stride
- "The common law"
- A hard decision
- Judge Holmes moves up
- Justice Holmes in Washington.