Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris write by William C. Dowling. This book was released on 2006. Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An innovative study that links the themes of Holmes's best-known literary works to his medical training in nineteenth-century Paris.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas write by Stephen Budiansky. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Consistently gripping.… [I]t’s possessed of a zest and omnivorous curiosity that reflects the boundless energy of its subject.” —Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor Oliver Wendell Holmes escaped death twice as a young Union officer in the Civil War. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. During his nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, he wrote a series of opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court’s reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms. As a pioneering legal scholar, Holmes revolutionized the understanding of common law. As an enthusiastic friend, he wrote thousands of letters brimming with an abiding joy in fighting the good fight. Drawing on many previously unpublished letters and records, Stephen Budiansky offers the fullest portrait yet of this pivotal American figure.
The Greater Journey
The Greater Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greater Journey write by David McCullough. This book was released on 2011-05-24. The Greater Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”
Elsie Venner
Elsie Venner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elsie Venner write by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This book was released on 1861. Elsie Venner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (Dodo Press)
Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (Dodo Press) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (Dodo Press) write by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This book was released on 2009-02. Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (Dodo Press) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (1809-1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer. He was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century. In 1833 Holmes attended the famed Ecole de Medecine in Paris. He pursued his medical studies in the Parisian hospital system. He first attained national prominence with his poem Old Ironsides. One of his most popular works was The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1857). He was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. He contributed poems and essays to the Atlantic Monthly from its inception, and also published novels. Holmes is also known for his writing of several beautiful hymns. In 1846, Holmes coined the word anesthesia. He also developed the popular model of the stereoscope. Amongst his other works are Elsie Venner (1861), The Guardian Angel (1867), The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872), John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir (1879), Medical Essays (1883), A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio (1885) and Over the Teacups (1891).
