Oliver Wendell Holmes : a life in war, law, and ideas

Oliver Wendell Holmes : a life in war, law, and ideas

"Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and...

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Main Author: Budiansky, Stephen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > Jr., > 1841-1935.
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Biography.
Judges > United States > Biography.
Biographies.

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Call Number: KF 8745 .H6 B83 2019
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