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Overview"In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as ""the only great American legal thinker"" and ""the most illustrious figure in the history of American law."" But in Albert Alschuler's critique of both Justice Holmes and contemporary legal scholarship, a darker portrait is painted—that of a man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favored eugenics, and, as he himself acknowledged, came ""devilish near to believing that might makes right.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Albert W. AlschulerPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780226015217ISBN 10: 0226015211 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 15 April 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"""An exuberantly and entertainingly polemical attack on the character, scholarship and philosophy of America's most revered judicial saint."" - Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Book Review ""[This] slender volume by a distinguished University of Chicago law professor should be required reading."" - Tom Roeser, Chicago Sun-Times; ""In a lively and entertaining attack, Albert Alschuler strips layer after layer from the traditional image of Holmes to reveal not a wise and compassionate liberal saint, but a heartless social Darwinist who believed in nothing but power. [H]is dissection of Holmes's legal scholarship is devastating."" - The Economist" An exuberantly and entertainingly polemical attack on the character, scholarship and philosophy of America's most revered judicial saint. - Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Book Review [This] slender volume by a distinguished University of Chicago law professor should be required reading. - Tom Roeser, Chicago Sun-Times; In a lively and entertaining attack, Albert Alschuler strips layer after layer from the traditional image of Holmes to reveal not a wise and compassionate liberal saint, but a heartless social Darwinist who believed in nothing but power. [H]is dissection of Holmes's legal scholarship is devastating. - The Economist Author InformationAlbert W. Alschuler is the Wilson-Dickinson Professor in the University of Chicago Law School. His study of Sir William Blackstone received the 1997 Sutherland Prize of the American Society of Legal Historians. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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