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Yankee from Olympus : Justice Holmes and his family /
"This is the story of a great American. It is also, because they were an essential part of him, the story of the distinguished men from whom he sprang: his Calvinist grandfather Abiel and his father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston's witty power, professor of anatomy and "Autocrat of th...
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Boston, Mass. :
Little, Brown and Company,
1944.
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| Series: | An Atlantic Monthly Press Book
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1: Abiel and his son Oliver, 1800-1841: The reverend Abiel Holmes decides to write a book and marry a Wendell
- Mr. and Mrs. Abiel Holmes: a son is born
- Mr. Madison's war and the Hartford Convention, Oliver Wendell Holmes is a a boy in Cambridge
- Oliver Holmes goes to school and college; his father finishes the Annals of America
- Oliver Holmes is graduated from Harvard; Abiel loses his parish
- Oliver changes his profession; he goes abroad to study; Abiel Holmes sees his son receive a prize
- Oliver Holmes is a physician; death of Abiel Holmes; Oliver marries a Jackson and names his first-born Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Pt. II: Oliver Wendell Holmes, junior 1841-1861: State of the Union when O.W.H. was born; Dr. Holmes becomes Professor of Anatomy at the Harvard Medical School
- Wendell Holmes is a boy in Boston; he meets Mr. Dixwell, his future father-in-law
- The nation grows restless
- Wendell Holmes gets ready for Harvard
- Harvard College
- Autocrat of the breakfast-table
- Uncle John gives his autograph
- Harvard College, continued
- Father and son
- Fanny Dixwell
- Lincoln's election
- War
- Class day at Harvard
- Pt 3: The soldier, 1861-1864: The twentieth regiment
- Ball's Bluff
- The seven days
- Antietam
- Dr. Holmes hunts for a wounded captain
- Father and son
- Holmes's third wound
- Ten months at home
- The wilderness
- Holmes is mustered out
- Law school
- The war ends
- Holmes asks himself some questions about the law
- Pt. IV: The lawyer, 1866-1882: William James
- Fanny Dixwell
- Wendell Holmes plays with his mind
- Holmes reads law
- He is examined for the Bar
- Counsellor at law, "to know is not less than to feel"
- Kent's commentaries
- Holmes sails for the Pole
- Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, junior
- Holmes works at the office
- He prepares a little book on the common Law
- Holmes lectures on the Common Law
- He presents his father with a book and is made a full professor at the Law School
- Pt. V: Judge in Massachusetts, 1882-1902: A judge with a sense of history
- And a brief summary of the conditions that confronted him
- Judge in Massachusetts
- Judge Holmes dissents from his brethren
- Farewell to the doctor
- Fanny Holmes and her husband
- Vegelahn v Guntner
- Theodore Roosevelt enters the scene and the old century is ended
- Chief Justice in Massachusetts
- Roosevelt writes to Lodge about Holmes
- Farewell to Boston
- Pt. VI: Washington, 1902-1935: Justice and Mrs. Holmes move to Washington
- The Northern Securities case
- Theodore Roosevelt frowns
- The Lochner case
- The Justice is seventy
- Holmes's Annuals
- He makes a prophecy
- World War
- The US v Child Labor
- War's aftermath
- Holmes defends the Bill of Rights
- "The great dissenter"
- Fanny Dixwell Holmes: "tell him I loved him"
- Philosophy is a hard hour
- Holmes's last dissent
- He resigns from the Court
- A nation's greeting
- Death of Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A soldier's burial
- The great affirmer.