This is a 1944 WWII U.S. Armed Services 

Edition of YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS: 

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Family. 

Only published in oblong softcover for the 

G.I.s, these editions are becoming increasingly 

scarcer each year. 

'Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an 

American jurist who served as an Associate 

Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 

1902 to 1932.'  -wiki

GOOD++ Condition with soiling, spine wear, 

edge wear and a few tears near the spine. 

The interior has beginning separation in front 

and rear near the gutter by the staple, but it is 

still firmly bound, covers still well attached. 

Some sporadic internal smudges from a 

soldier's hand during WWII, but that simply 

makes it officially used. 

from the rear cover: 

"The story of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes 

is, in a broad sense, the story of his country.  

The narrative cannot begin with the flat date 

of his birth-1841.  This was a man whose 

presence carried tradition.  His roots reached 

deep into American earth.  It was the strength 

of these roots that permitted so splendid a 

flowering.  To know Justice Holmes at eighty- 

courtly, witty, scholarly, kind- it is well to have 

acquaintance with his Calvinist grandfather, 

Abiel Holmes; with his handsome, worldly 

great-grandfather, Judge Wendell; with his 

mother, from whom he inherited, he said, 

'a trace of melancholy.'  And above all it is 

well to know his father, that sturdy Yankee 

who wrote bad verse and good books- 

professor of anatomy, talkative five-foot-five 

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table who lived upon 

applause and said so with engaging, frankness.

  By his own confession, Justice Holmes was an 

'internal man,' to whom ideas were more 

interesting than things.  But he was also a man 

of action, and he shared his country's action and 

passion both on the soldier's field and the 

judge's bench." 

 

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