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Article: The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of Torts in History.
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- Michigan Law Review
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- May 1, 1997
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By David Rosenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1995. Pp. xii, 280. $.
The literature on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is very considerable; in quite recent times it has been greatly strengthened by G.E. White's biography,(1) surely a model of its kind. One might have been tempted to view it as the definitive study, but there is something elusive about Holmes, something, I expect, that rules out definitive studies. Given this elusive quality, we perhaps ought not to be surprised by the appearance of Professor Rosenberg's(2) book, nor by the fact that it has new things to say about Holmes. Its thesis is boldly revisionist: Holmes's views about the ...