Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019508182X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 648 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was tall and exceptionally attractive, especially as he aged, with piercing eyes, a shock of white hair, and prominent moustache. For instance, his desire to distinguish himself from his father and from the "soft" literary culture of his father's generation drove him to legal scholarship of a particularly demanding kind.White's biography of Earl Warren was hailed by Anthony Lewis on the cover of The New York Times Book Review as "serious and fascinating," and The Los Angeles Times noted that "White has gone beyond the labels and given us the man." In Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, White has produced an equally serious and fascinating biography, one that again goes beyond the labels and gives us the man himself.. White examines Holmes's curious, childless marriage (his diary for 1872 noted on June 17th that he had married Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, and the next sentence indicated that he had become the sole editor of the American Law Review) and he includes new information on Holmes's relationship with Clare Castletown. White not only provides a vivid portrait of Holmes's life, but examines in depth the inner life and thought of this preeminent legal figure. He was the son
A wonderful book. Very detailed but also lucid. GaryGech@hotmail.Com Two apsects strike me in reading about Holmes. First is his life. What a great subject. Holmes is almost as exciting to read about as Lincoln. The second is his jurisprudence. White does a fine job covering both. I like White's style. Somewhat loose but never inaccurate, his biography is very readable.Two chapters: The Supreme Court of Massachusetts and the "Progressive Judge" are so wonderfully written that they deserve to be read twice.I read the book over a period of four months which is something I rarely do. This is because the subject and content are so important that the philosophy of Holmes takes some time t. "Five Stars" according to Ms. Fisher. Beautiful condition!. This good book arrived in good condition This good book arrived in good condition. As it was a Christmas present, I anticipated that my return address as the sender would be displayed to the recipient address, however, but it was not. The only return address shown to the recipient was the Northern California originator, which caused some confusion! Other than that, it was all good.
Photos not seen by PW. Drawing on prodigious research, White closely analyzes Holmes's legal scholarship, finding a tension between his subject's reliance on both experience and logic in his classic, The Common Law . His self-control and his ambition, White suggests, allowed Holmes to concentrate on his work. The author also dissects Holmes's Supreme Court opinions, describing how his reputation grew and suggesting that Holmes's famous rhetoric on free speech ("every idea is an incitement") was memorable but obscured philosophical contradictions, perhaps because his changing ideas on free speech had less to do with the consistent evolution of legal doctrine than with the influence of certain Washington intellectuals. That work, along with Holmes's stature as a "figure of public romance," will