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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