The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters and Judicial Opinions. Selected and Edited with Introduction and Commentary by Max Lerner by Lerner, Max - 1954

New York: The Modern Library/Random House, Inc, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition (1943), L, 474pp, Foreword (with a 1953 update by Editor,) Holmes: A Personal History; Part I: Campaigns of Life and Law; Part II: Supreme Court Justice; Part III: The Savor of Life; Note on the Holmes Literature; Note on Acknowledgments; Note on Abbreviations; Table of Cases, Index. 8vo/21cm. Green cloth gilt, very light wear, in double-sided dj (list of Modern Library books on verso), review laid in dated July 31, 1955 from NYTimes Book Review by Carlos Baker, Professor of English at Princeton. A Modern Library Giant. Max Lerner (1902-1992) was a noted journalist,, syndicated columnist, intellectual and editor of The Nation. A rival of Walter Lippman, he was a friend of Justice Felix Frankfurter, Harold Laski and Hugh Hefner. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (1841-1935) was a distinguished American jurist who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932, especially noted for his outspoken judicial restraint philosophy..