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From: Polity
Date: 19991222
Author:Fitzpatrick, Gerard J.

G. Edward White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Felix Frankfurter once lamented that "until we have penetrating studies of the influence of [the justices] we shall not have an adequate history of the Supreme Court, and, therefore, of the United States."(1) He had reason for concern. Early judicial biographies generally were nostalgic recollections written by a family member or close personal associate shortly after a Justice's death and usually contained more tribute than analysis.(2) As late as the New Deal ...

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