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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19940102
Author:Mark Gitenstein

JUSTICE OLIVER

WENDELL HOLMES:

Law and the Inner Self

By G. Edward White

Oxford. 628 pp. $37.50

BRANDEIS: Beyond Progressivism

By Phillipa Strum

University of Kansas. 228 pp. $25

FEW WHO HAVE SERVED on the Supreme Court have had a greater impact on it than Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis. Indeed, two new books about these legendary jurists suggest that the profound impact both men had on the liberal agenda in all three branches of government lasted throughout this century. Their influence was not simply in the jurisprudence they espoused and convinced a majority of the Court ...

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