Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912-1934
- Hardcover
- 344 pages
- Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912-1934
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- English
- 01 March 2015 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- 9780874517583
[PDF / Epub] ☆ Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912-1934 Author Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – Capitalsoftworks.co.uk Nearly 400 previously unpublished letters capture the essence of an extraordinary and in some ways unlikely friendship between one of America's preeminent jurists and a younger reform minded colleague Nearly previously unpublished letters Frankfurter: Their Epub ß capture the essence of an extraordinary and in some ways unlikely friendship between one of America's preeminent jurists and a younger reform minded colleague who would himself one day ascend to the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes was when introduced to fiery effervescent Felix Frankfurter who'd come to Washington at age to serve President Taft The two couldn't Holmes and eBook Æ have had different backgrounds Holmes a Civil War hero of Boston Brahmin stock and Frankfurter a Jewish immigrant whose reformist views would lead him to help found the American Civil Liberties Union and act as key advisor to Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal With an introduction providing historical background and annotations that supply context for cases mentioned this uniue collection illuminates a strong and mutually and Frankfurter: Their PDF/EPUB ¼ satisfying personal and professional relationship between two men whose exchanges on the meaning of law in general and American law in particular the editors write found expression in their work and influenced legal and political change in their own lifetimes and in ours as well.