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Learned Hand : the man and the judge / Gerald Gunther ; [foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg].

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xx, 704 p. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780195377774 :
  • 019537777X :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF373.H29 G76 2011
Contents:
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".

Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-685) and index.

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".

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