Learned Hand : the man and the judge /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2010
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of 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"