Learned Hand : the man and the judge / Gerald Gunther.
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Publication details:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
Edition:
2nd edition
Record id:
72398
Author:
Subject:
Hand, Learned, -- 1872-1961.
United States. -- Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) -- Biography.
Judges -- Biography -- United States.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. The early years
Learned Hand and Frances Fincke
From Wall Street lawyer to federal district judge
The marriage and its tensions
The peak of political enthusiasm : Herbert Croly, Theodore Roosevelt, and the progressive years
Promotion to the Second Circuit
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1920s and 1930s : Hand as first among equals
Achieving national renown during the nation's complacent years, 1919-1928
The Hoover years and Hand's missed chance for promotion to the Supreme Court
The new deal
The road to war and the break with Lippmann
The chief judgeship and World War II
The last chance for a Supreme Court appointment : the 1942 vacancy
The postwar years, the Cold War, and Mccarthyism
Active retirement from regular active service.
Note:
Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Variant title:
Oxford scholarship online. Law collection.
ISBN:
9780195377774
Phys. description:
xx, 704 p. : ill. ; 24 cm