Once upon a time, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was the great modern American jurist. The “Yankee from Olympus,” as Catherine Drinker Bowen’s 1944 biography called Holmes, was the first celebrity justice ...
Among the various theories of history and its interpretations, questions are often asked: Does one individual matter? Or, more aptly for the subject of this biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Does ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Library of Congress / Silsbee, Case, and Co.) Wounded three times during the Civil War—once when a bullet passed right through his neck—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. lived long ...
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