Holmes and Frankfurter : their correspondence, 1912-1934

Type
Book
ISBN 10
0874517583 
ISBN 13
9780874517583 
Category
American Law  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1996 
Pages
xlii, 302 pages 
Subject
American Biography 
Abstract
"Nearly four hundred previously unpublished letters capture the essence of an extraordinary and in some ways unlikely friendship between one of America's preeminent jurists and a younger, reform-minded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 who would himself one day ascend to the Supreme Court. Oliver Wendell Holmes was seventy-one when he was introduced to fiery, effervescent Felix Frankfurter, who had come to Washington at age thirty to serve President Taft. The two couldn't have had more different backgrounds: Holmes was a Civil War hero of Boston Brahmin stock, while Frankfurter was 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 that provides historical background and annotations that supply context for cases mentioned, this unique collection illuminates a strong and mutually 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."" --Voila 
Description
Content:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The correspondence
Frequently cited works
Subject index
Index to court cases 
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and indexes.
Categorized by subject, then editor, then date.  
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