Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (page 106) and index.;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. Presents a brief, illustrated biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., providing information on his youth in Boston, his service in the Civil War, his education and law career, his appointment to the Supreme Court, and his influence on American legal thought. Includes time line.
From the Publisher
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.