Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Poetical Works
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Author: Stephen BudianskyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634736
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
“Consistently gripping.… [I]t’s possessed of a zest and omnivorous curiosity that reflects the boundless energy of its subject.” —Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor Oliver Wendell Holmes escaped death twice as a young Union officer in the Civil War. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. During his nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, he wrote a series of opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court’s reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms. As a pioneering legal scholar, Holmes revolutionized the understanding of common law. As an enthusiastic friend, he wrote thousands of letters brimming with an abiding joy in fighting the good fight. Drawing on many previously unpublished letters and records, Stephen Budiansky offers the fullest portrait yet of this pivotal American figure.
Songs in Many Keys
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation
Author: Peter GibianPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521560269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Peter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in what was known as America's 'Age of Conversation'. He was both a model and an analyst of the dynamic conversational form, which became central to many areas of mid-nineteenth-century life. Holmes' multivoiced writings can serve as a key to open up the closed interiors of Victorian America, whether in saloons or salons, parlours or clubs, hotels or boarding-houses, schoolrooms or doctors' offices. Combining social, intellectual, medical, legal and literary history with close textual analysis, and setting Holmes in dialogue with Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Fuller, Alcott and finally with his son, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior, Gibian radically redefines the context for our understanding of the major literary works of the American Renaissance.
Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author: Sheldon NovickPublisher: Plunkett Lake Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
An eBook edition of this fine biography is now available. The print edition garnered extraordinary praise; a new preface brings this eBook edition up to date. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. aspired to be a poet and philosopher, was wounded in the Civil War, courted aristocratic women, became one of the greatest judges in American history, and lived long enough to give advice to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. We see though Holmes’s eyes, and his searching intelligence, almost a century of American history and the slow growth of a new understanding of the Constitution. “An ideal biography for the intelligent general reader... the fascination [Holmes] exerts, a combination of toughness and style, shines through this book.” — The New Yorker “[Novick] is the type of scholar who, though trained in law, asks Harvard’s Arnold Herbarium to identify some leaves pressed into an old love letter... One opens his book with high hopes, and as chapter follows masterly chapter the hopes mature into admiration of author and awe of subject.” — Edmund Morris, The New York Times “The book’s strength lies in its fast-paced vividness of narrative and its steadiness of belief in the wholeness and stature of Holmes as a man... Novick tells Holmes’s story with verve, insight, and a command of his material. Even his footnotes capture the reader.” — Max Lerner, The New Republic “[Holmes’s life] is stuff for great biography and Sheldon M. Novick has given us just that... a work of original and exact scholarship... concise and readable, yet provides enough historical and legal background to enable the nonspecialist to read the book with comprehension and pleasure.” — Hon. Richard A. Posner, The Wall Street Journal
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A collection of poetry by the author.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The "Breakfast-table" Series
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The Poet at the Breakfast-table
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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