00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004898 20221108092343 0010-0520004898 221108################|##########|#eng## 9781111 eng 347.07 347.07 BOW y Bowen, Catherine Drinker Yankee from Olympus; Justice Holmes and his family / Catherine Drinker Bowen Cet. 3 New York : Bantan Books, 2008 322 p. illus. 18 cm. The Story of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is the story of his country. The narrative cannot begin with the flat date of his birth_1941. This was a man whose presence carried tradition. Everyone who met him felt it, and it was not oppressive but inspiring. Over his shoulder one glimpsed somehow his ancestors. His roots reached deep into American eart; it was the strength of these roots that permitted so plendid a flowering. If the significance of his life lay wholly in his legal achievements, there would be no place for a biography written by a layman. If its significance lay wholly in his written words, there would be no place for a biography at all. But Holmes's greatness lay most of all his manner of meeting life. He had a genius for living, a genius for finding himself wholly, using himself wholly. He loved life and believed in it. 05621/MKRI-P/VII-2008 05621/MKRI-P/VII-2008