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" Oliver Wendell Holmes : "
G. Edward White.
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BL
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| Record Number
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965393
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b719763
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| Main Entry
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White, G. Edward.
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| Title & Author
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Oliver Wendell Holmes : : sage of the Supreme Court /\ G. Edward White.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, ©2000.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford portraits
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151 pages :: illustrations, map ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0195116674
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: 9780195116670
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-146) and index.
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| Contents
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The family legacy -- Our hearts were touched with fire: the civil war years -- The practical struggle of life: becoming a lawyer and a judge -- The quiet years -- A more important and more visible court -- A new and solemn volume opens -- An unlikely reformer -- The yankee from Olympus -- Toward melancholy: the retirement years.
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| Abstract
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A biography of the well-known philosopher and judge, with emphasis on his influential thirty-year tenure as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1841-1935
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.,1841-1935.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1841-1935.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1841-1935.
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Judges-- United States, Biography, Juvenile literature.
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Judges.
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Judges, Biography.
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Judges.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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347.73/2634B
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| LC Classification
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KF8745.H6W473 2000
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