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Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes "One opens the book
with high hopes, and as chapter follows masterly
chapter the hopes mature ito admiration of author and
awe of subject. . . When at last Mr. Novick records
the death of Holmes . . . he shocks us into something
like grief." -- Edmund
Morris, in The New
York Times Book Review
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The Collected Works of Justice Holmes: Complete Public Writings and Selected Judicial Opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Edited, with an introductory essay, by Sheldon M. Novick (Volumes I - III, Holmes's books, essays and addresses.) "The greatest virtue of
this collection is what it shows us about the age in
which Holmes lived and how a very intelligent and
public- spirited lawyer reacted to those times." --
[London]
Times Higher Education Supplement
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