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Free Article The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/25/1992
Free Article The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/23/1991
Free Article The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006

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The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/25/1992; ; 700+ words ; The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches...Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., edited by Richard A. Posner (Chicago, 328 pp., $24.95) OLIVER Wendell Holmes was a double man. A lifelong atheist... Read more
The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/23/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...perennial fascination of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes? Other judges, it could be argued...on constitutional doctrine. Yet Holmes remains the preeminent American...second full biography of Justice Holmes, following Sheldon M. Novick's... Read more
The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 170 words ; 9780826216441 The imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Weinstein, Michael A. U. of...problem is, many take the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. as an essayist and novelist...Purdue U.) follows the arc of Holmes's creative combinations of essay... Read more
Supreme folly. (Oliver Wendell Holmes' dissent in the 1905 Supreme Court decision on worker justice)(The Last Word)(Column)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 9/27/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...dissent in American jurisprudence is Oliver Wendell Holmes's denunciation of court-ordered...constitutionalized economic laissez faire. Holmes's dissent in Lochner is scarcely...truths about American democracy. Holmes insisted that the liberty clause... Read more
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self.
Magazine article from: Trial; 5/1/1994; ; 694 words ; ...decision making. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the subject of...the scholar and Holmes the judge. Lawyers...the treatment of Holmes's half century...Court. Chapters on Holmes's judicial career...view Of law that Holmes created for himself...biography is that Holmes labored in ... Read more
Oliver Wendell Holmes Society.(Harvard Medical School academic society)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet; 9/24/2001; 65 words ; ...Israel Deaconess Medical Center and faculty member at Harvard Medical School in Boston, was appointed master of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society, an academic society at Harvard Medical School. White, known for his work in health-care disparity issues... Read more
Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912-1934.
Magazine article from: Trial; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Felix Frankfurter spread the gospel that justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was the champion of liberal causes. Frankfurter...justice's closest friends, and he chose law clerks for Holmes. Holmes asked Frankfurter to burn his letters after his... Read more
Judging Holmes.(Review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/14/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...and Legacy of Justice Holmes, by Albert W. Alschuler (Chicago, 325 pp., $30) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the author informs...purple postage stamps. Holmes seems to have known...Melville were part of Holmes Sr.'s circle. The younger... Read more
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes.
Magazine article from: Trial; 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...sampling of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s opinions...and distracting. Holmes the legal thinker...influence is the Holmes of his public...opinions, not the Holmes who privately...Marilyn Monroe. Holmes was a legal scholar...by an American. Holmes's article The...by ... Read more
The Collected Works of Justice Holmes, 3 vols.
Magazine article from: Trial; 6/1/1996; ; 650 words ; ...To most Americans, lawyers and laypeople alike, Oliver Wendell Holmes is the towering figure in American law. Impressive...Sheldon Novick's Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes appeared. Now at last, Novick, a professor at the... Read more
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