Oliver Wendell Holmes a life in war, law, and ideas
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an ins...
| Main Author: | Budiansky, Stephen (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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