Full name: Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Author: Sheldon M. Novick Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316613255 0316613258

The first biography of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the best known figure in the history of American law. His book "The Common Law" is still in print after 100 years, and is considered to be one of the great works of American legal history. Holmes was a complex figure, considerably different from the grandfatherly figure of popular legend. Although he was seen as a role model by three generations of liberal reformers, he at one time adhered to a primitive type of fascism. This account of his life and work spans the years from the Civil War battlefields of his youth, to the impassioned constitutional battles of his old age. Similar books: Hugo Black by Roger K. Newman Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin I. Urofsky Justice Brennan by Seth Stern John Marshall by Jean Edward Smith Chief Justice by Ed Cray Clarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone Justice for All by Jim Newton American Original by Joan Biskupic Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse Yankee from Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray Tony Hancock by John Fisher Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Fearless by Eric Blehm The Wright Brothers by David McCullough The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson