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A Justice For All Seasons
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910818
Author:Hiller B. Zobel
THE JUSTICE FROM BEACON HILL The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes By Liva Baker HarperCollins. 782 pages, $29.95
"NO ONE else will find it fruitful to write on him for many years to come," blurbs John P. Frank about this hefty biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935). Liva Baker has certainly produced a fine book, has ransacked Holmes's papers at the Harvard Law School and elsewhere, and has, to a degree unmatched among Holmesian archaeologists, unearthed valuable artifacts from unlikely middens. To suggest, however, the futility of further inquiry into the Holmes ...
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