David McKean
Thomas "Tommy the Cork" Corcoran and the Birth of Modern Lobbying In 1931, a young Rhode Island lawyer with middle-class, Irish Catholic roots came to Washington to clerk for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had earned among the highest grades [... more]
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Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and ...
 Author: William C. Dowling Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 610.92 EAN: 9781584655794 ISBN: 1584655798 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: 2007-06-25 [... more]
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Sheldon M. Novick
Sheldon M. Novick is the author of Henry James: The Young Master and Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and is the editor of The Collected Works of Justice Holmes. He is Adjunct Professor of Law and History at Vermont Law ... [... more]
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101 Famous Poems
Just a note on one poem: John Masefield wrote Sea Fever. The first line is I must down to the seas again, the lonely sea and sky. Cook has it I must go down to the seas again, the lonely sea and sky. I was shocked. Not only does adding the "go" [... more]
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Committed To Memory
ambitious subtitle, but certainly a nice collection: Several years ago, upon learning that a certain young woman enjoyed the poetry of Robert Frost, I began to memorize some of Frost's poetry. While this effort to impress her did not produce the desired [... more]
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The Laws of Simplicity
Too much I.D. of M.I.T.: Worse than I expected, did not really get much from it after reading, except being reminded time and time again the author was from M.I.T. Not worth the money buying it. Getting to "the other side of complexity": [... more]
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Nine Scorpions In A Bottle
From Amazon.com: To paraphrase the great humorist Finley Peter Dunne, the Constitution follows the flag and the Supreme Court follows the election returns. Journalist and scholar Max Lerner, on the other hand, followed the Supreme Court for more than 60 [... more]
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Henry James: The Young Master
From Amazon.com: In this shrewd, scrupulous biography covering the life of Henry James from his birth until the threshold of his greatest work, Sheldon Novick steers away from the notion that James was a man of sublimated desires, the very figure of the [... more]
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial ...
Author: Frederic R. Kellogg Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 340.1 EAN: 9780521866507 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0521866502 Number Of Pages: 218 Publication Date: 2006-12-11 [... more]
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Free Speech and the ...
Author: H. L. Pohlman Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780814766224 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0814766226 Number Of Pages: 265 Publication Date: 1993-09 [... more]
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The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, ...
From Amazon.com: Legendary U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is not only a giant in American legal history but is also remarkable for having been a master prose stylist. This collection, edited by Richard Posner, who is himself a federal [... more]
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The Bone Garden: A Novel
Entertaining Look at the Medicine and Mores of Boston in 1830: If you are a devoted Tess Gerritsen fan who loves Dr. Maura Isles using forensic anthropology to solve murders, please be aware that this book isn't in that vein. Instead, this book is more [... more]
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