A01=Albert W. Alschuler
Author_Albert W. Alschuler
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Category=LNAA
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226015217
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2002
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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."
