Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas by Stephen Budiansky

Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

Stephen Budiansky

592 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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 S...

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