Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas by Stephen Budiansky

Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

Stephen Budiansky

592 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral ...

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