Download or read book Holmes Sheehan Correspondence written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., distinguished American jurist, and Patrick Augustine Sheehan, an Irish clerical-savant, enjoyed a warm and notable friendship based largely on their exchange of letters from 1903, when they first met in Ireland, until 1913, the year of Sheehan's death. This correspondence illuminates what is otherwise a largely hidden and little appreciated side of the mind and faith of Justince Holmes. Sheehan was able to draw from his friend an awareness and s ympathy for human frailty and its counterpoint, faith in a divine plan of earthly things, thoughts and feelings that surfaced in letters to other of his friends. The importance of this edition of the Holmes-Sheehan letters rests in the first instance on this discovery. But Canon Sheehan wsa no mere foil for Holmes as they discussed with equal insight issues as varied as the economic man and the age of faith, of classical works, including Dante's Divine Comedy and Pascal's Pensees. Holmes discovered in the Canon a man of the most profound faith who remained open and tolerant of the beliefs and non-beliefs of others. He is better understood because of his affection for Sheehan, and, no less telling, because of the Canon's admiration for him. Gary J. Aichele in Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Soldier, Scholar, Judge finds this set of letters perhaps the most unusualof any collection of Holmes correspondence published to date.
Download or read book Holmes Sheehan Correspondence written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holmes Einstein Letters written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White goes beyond the labels to give readers a rounded portrait of this remarkable jurist. Covering Holmes' early life and time at Harvard, his ambivalent relationship with his father, and Civil War service, White also examines Holmes' childless marriage and his reputation as a preeminent legal figure. 14 halftones. Map.
Download or read book Friendships Across Ages written by Jeffrey O'Connell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendships Across Ages is about how two friendships, one and a half centuries apart, between aged men of great distinction, Samuel Johnson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and much younger, gifted, though flawed, men, James Boswell and Harold Laski respectively, resulted in writings of lasting importance.
Download or read book The Essential Holmes written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection of his speeches, opinions, and letters, Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as judge, historian, philosopher, and master of English style. Thematically arranged, the volume covers a rich variety of subjects from aging and death to themes in politics, personalities, and law. Posner's substantial introduction firmly places this wealth of material in its proper biographical and historical context. "A first-rate prose stylist, [Holmes] was perhaps the most quotable of all judges, as this ably edited volume shows."—Washington Post Book World "Brilliantly edited, lucidly organized, and equipped with a compelling introduction by Judge Posner, [this book] is one of the finest single-volume samplers of any author's work I have seen. . . . Posner has fully captured the acrid tang of him in this masterly anthology."—Terry Teachout, National Review "Excellent. . . . A worthwhile contribution to current American political/legal discussions."—Library Journal "The best source for the reader who wants a first serious acquaintance with Holmes."—Thomas C. Grey, New York Review of Books
Download or read book The Pollock Holmes Letters written by Frederick Pollock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in a two-volume set containing the trans-Atlantic correspondence between the celebrated jurists Sir Frederick Pollock and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Volume one contains the letters dated between 1874 and 1918 and includes their discussion of topics such as the American Civil War and World War One.
Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr written by Susan-Mary Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an eventful period of American history, as the country went from an agrarian republic to an industrialized world power. In this concise, engaging book, Susan-Mary Grant puts Holmes' life in national context, exploring how he both shaped and reflected his changing country. She examines the impact of the Civil War on his life and his thinking, his role in key cases ranging from the issue of free speech in Schenck v. United States to the infamous ruling in favor of eugenics in Buck v. Bell, showing how behind Holmes’ reputation as a liberal justice lay a more complex approach to law that did not neatly align with political divisions. Including a selection of key primary documents, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. introduces students of U.S., Civil War, and legal history to a game-changing figure and his times.
Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes Correspondence written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains 29 letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) to various correspondents, dating from 1852-1892. Primary recipients are Phineas Barnes and Clara Barnes Martin, friends of Holmes who write about personal and family matters. Other letters pertain to Holmes' literary endeavors and reminiscence of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. Also included are letters to James T. Fields and Bram Stoker.
Download or read book The Taft Court Volume 10 written by Robert C. Post and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 1672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work will serve as the authoritative reference text on the Supreme Court during the period of 1921 to 1930, when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. It will become a point of common reference across multiple disciplines, including history, law, and political science.
Download or read book The American Judicial Tradition written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous editions published : 1988 (expanded), 1976 (1st).
Download or read book Progressive Masks written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These remarkable letters reveal Holmes to be patient, sympathetic, even indulgent of theories that, by his own admission, he did not really understand. The y bring further notice to financial analyst Franklin Ford, who was a close associate of John Dewey.
Download or read book The Fundamental Holmes written by Ronald K. L. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No figure stands taller in the world of First Amendment law than Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This is the first anthology of Justice Holmes's writings, speeches and opinions concerning freedom of expression. The book contains eight original essays designed to situate Holmes's works in historical and biographical context. The volume is enriched by extensive commentaries concerning its many entries, which consist of letters, speeches, book excerpts, articles, state court opinions and U.S. Supreme Court opinions. The edited materials – spanning Holmes's 1861–1864 service in the Civil War to his 1931 radio address to the nation – offer a unique view of the thoughts of the father of the modern First Amendment. The book's epilogue, which includes a major discovery about Holmes's impact on American statutory law, explores Holmes's free speech legacy. In the process, the reader comes to know Holmes and his jurisprudence of free speech as never before.
Download or read book The Great Dissent written by Thomas Healy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on newly discovered letters and memos, this riveting scholarly history of the conservative justice who became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment reconstructs his journey from free-speech skeptic to First Amendment hero.
Download or read book Catholic Nationalism in the Irish Revival written by R. Fleischmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canon Sheehan's writings provide valuable insight into Ireland's difficult process of cultural reconstruction after independence. This astute observer of Irish society was pessimistic about the future of religion. Though himself a man of European culture, he made a case for isolationism to become reality under the Free State. It is a case which today is easily scorned - but his work allows us to understand why it could command such support, and to appreciate its relative historical justification.
Download or read book Justice Holmes to Doctor Wu written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1935* with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metaphysical Club written by Louis Menand and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the development of an American philosophy between the end of the Civil War and 1919 by exploring the lives of four key metaphysical thinkers: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey.