Author: Budlansky, Stephen,
Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes: a life in war, Law, and Ideas.
Description: NY, Norton, (2019). VG hardback. "To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." Holmes was a Union officer in the Civil War. and had barely escaped death at Ball's Bluff when musket balls tore through his chest and neck missing his heart spine and the carotid arrtery by an eighth of an inch. He knew Ralph WaldosEmerson as a family friend nand dimly reembered Herman Melville , a summer neighbor. A physicla After the way he traveled Europe and climbed the Alps. He met Winstone Churchill after the war. But the Civil War was his touchstone. He had no interest in reliving those days but had to read about them.

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