Holmes and Frankfurter : their correspondence, 1912-1934
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Author), Felix Frankfurter, Robert M. Mennel (Editor), Christine L. Compston (Editor), University Press of New England (Publisher), University of New Hampshire
Nearly four hundred previously unpublished letters capture the essence of an extraordinary and in some ways unlikely friendship between one of America's preeminent jurists and a younger, reform-minded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
Print Book, English, 1996
Published by University Press of New England [for] University of New Hampshire, Hanover, 1996
Biographies
xlii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
9780874517583, 0874517583
34115954