Yankee from Olympus : Justice Holmes and his family /
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Boston :
Little, Brown and Company,
1945 [©1944]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Abiel and his son oliver 1800-1841 : The reverend Abiel Holmes decides to write a book and marry a Wendell
- Mr. and Mrs. Abiel Holmes-A son is born
- Mr. Madison's war and the hartford convention-Oliver Wendell Homes is a boy in Cambridge-Abiel Homes sees a threat to the old religion
- Oliver Holmes goes to school and college. His father finishes the annals of America
- Oliver Holmes is graduated from Harvard-Abiel loses his parish
- Oliver changes his profession-He goes abroad to study-Abiel Homes sees his son receive a prize
- Oliver Holmes is a physician-Death of Abiel Holmes-Oliver marries a Jackson and names his first born Oliver Wendell Holmes
- II. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior 1841-1861 : State of the Union when o.w.h. was born-Dr. Holmes becomes professor of anatomy at the Harvard medical school
- Wendell Holmes is a boy in Boston-He meets Mr. Dixwell, his future father in law
- The nation grows restless-Wendell Holmes gets ready for Harvard
- Harvard College-Autocrat of the breakfast table-Uncle John gives his autograph
- Harvard College, continued-Father and son-Fanny Dixwell
- Lincoln's election-War-Class day at Harvard
- III. The soldier 1861-1864 : The twentieth regiment-Ball's bluff
- The seven days-Antietam-Dr. Holmes hunts for a wounded captain
- Father and son-Holmes's third wound
- Ten months at home-The wilderness-Holmes is mustered out
- Law school
- The war ends-Holme's asks himself some questions about the law
- IV. The lawyer 1866-1882 : William James-Fanny Dixwell-Wendell Holmes plays with his mind
- Holmes reads law-He is examined for the bar
- Counsellor at law-"To know is not less than to feel"
- Kent's commentaries-Holmes's sails for the pole
- Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior
- Holmes works at the office-He prepares a little book on the common law
- Holmes lectures on the common law-He presents his father with a book, and is made a full professor at the law school
- V. Judge in Massachusetts 1882-1902 : A judge with a sense of history-And a brief summary of the conditions that confronted him
- Judge in Massachusetts
- Judge Holmes dissents from his brethren-Farewell to the doctor
- Fanny Holmes and her husband-Vegelahn v. Guntner-Theodore Roosevelt enters the scene, and the old century is ended
- Chief justice in Massachusetts-Roosevelt writes to lodge about Holmes-Farewell to Boston
- VI. Washington 1902-1935 : Justice and Mrs. Holmes move to Washington
- The norther securities case-Theodore Roosevelt frowns-The Lochner case
- The justice is seventy-Holmes's annuals-He makes a prophecy
- World war-The U.S. v. child labor-War's aftermath-Holmes defends the bill of rights
- "The great dissenter"
- Fanny Dixwell Holmes-"Tell him I loved him."-Philosophy in a hard hour
- Holmes's last dissent-He resigns from the court-A nation's greeting
- Death of Oliver Wendell Holmes-A soldier's burial-The great affirmer.