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Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912-1934.

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From: Trial
Date: 19971001
Author:Hoffheimer, Michael H.

From 1912 to 1934, Felix Frankfurter spread the gospel that justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was the champion of liberal causes. Frankfurter became one of the aging justice's closest friends, and he chose law clerks for Holmes. Holmes asked Frankfurter to burn his letters after his death, and he entrusted Frankfurter with the task of writing his official biography.

After Holmes's death, as one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Supreme Court appointees, Frankfurter helped transform Holmes's dissents into the law of the land. But Frankfurter never burned the letters or wrote the ...

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