Yankee from Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen (1968) (R22a2) Bantam Books PB

"It is required of a man that he should share the action and passion of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Oliver Wendell Holmes patterned his life after these words. AS a brilliant, iconoclastic Supreme Court justice, his dissenting opinions profoundly altered the legal philosophy of our time. In her celebrated biography of this wry, witty, paradoxical New England aristocrat, Catherine Drinker Bowen captures the very essence of the man who became known as "the laboring man's hope."

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Abiel & His Son Oliver, 1800-41
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, 1841-61
The Soldier, 1861-64
The Lawyer, 1866-82
Judge in Massachusetts, 1882-1902
Washington, 1902-35
Notes
Material & Sources
Appendices
Index

ISBN:
Format: paperback
Pages: 432
Book Condition: Fair - all pages tight
Dust Jacket:
Copyright: 1943, 1944 by Catherine Drinker Bowen / Bantam Matrix edition published December 1968
Publisher: Bantam Books
Edition: Bantam Matrix Edition

DEFECTS:
spine and covers have very little reader wear
Pages and covers do have staining
(Please look at photos carefully)

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