Ralph Waldo Emerson (American men and women of letters series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877541574 ISBN 13: 9780877541578

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 1980

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About the Author:

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nick-named the "Great Dissenter" because of his many dissenting opinions. Holmes is also the author of Kent's Commentaries on the Law (1873) and "The Path of the Law" (1897).