Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Lives and Legacies)
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Law, Engineering & Transportation
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Law, Engineering & Transportation
Book Type: Hardcover
An interesting, but brief, biography of one of our nation's most renown Supreme Court justices.
Most interesting is that the book has only 138 pages of text, but on page 61, less than half-way through, the author begins a chapter by writing, "In 1901, as Holmes turned sixty..."
What we have here is a man who is sixty years old, a time when most of us are looking forward to retirement, who was embarking on the greatest, and perhaps most productive, 34 years of his life.
He sounds like an AARP "poster child," but he was simply a man who showed us it is never time to sit back and say, "All done."
Most interesting is that the book has only 138 pages of text, but on page 61, less than half-way through, the author begins a chapter by writing, "In 1901, as Holmes turned sixty..."
What we have here is a man who is sixty years old, a time when most of us are looking forward to retirement, who was embarking on the greatest, and perhaps most productive, 34 years of his life.
He sounds like an AARP "poster child," but he was simply a man who showed us it is never time to sit back and say, "All done."
