Full Description
This book contains several constitutional essays, speeches, letters, and judicial opinions. It shows how Holmes's speeches of criticisms that were directed against the Court at the time and how he lived at the center of lashing intellectual storms, presenting responses to these storms.
Contents
Holmes: A Personal History Part I: Campaigns of Life and Law 1. A Fighting Faith: the Civil War 2. Law as Galling, Life as Art 3. Law as Civilization 4. Law as Judgment: Some Massachusetts Judicial Opinions Part II: Supreme Court Justice 5. America as a Going Concern 6. State Power and Free Trade in Ideas Part III: The Savor of Life 7. Men and Ideas 8. Letters: Dialogues between Social Thought and Its Appropriations through Educational Debates in Brazil 9. Last Words
