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Book SynopsisThis work paints a dark picture of Justice Holmes as a distasteful man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favoured eugenics, and as he himself acknowledged, came "devilish near to believing that might means right".
Trade Review"An exuberantly and entertainingly polemical attack on the character, scholarship and philosophy of America's most revered judicial saint." - Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Book Review "[This] slender volume by a distinguished University of Chicago law professor should be required reading." - Tom Roeser, Chicago Sun-Times; "In a lively and entertaining attack, Albert Alschuler strips layer after layer from the traditional image of Holmes to reveal not a wise and compassionate liberal saint, but a heartless social Darwinist who believed in nothing but power. [H]is dissection of Holmes's legal scholarship is devastating." - The Economist
