Thurman Arnold : : A Biography / / Spencer Weber Waller.

Thurman Arnold (1891-1969) was a major iconoclast of American law and a great liberal of the 20th century. In this first biography of Arnold, Spencer Weber Waller traces Arnold's life from his birth in Laramie, Wyoming, and explores how his western upbringing influenced his distinctive views ab...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Spirit of the West
  • 2 A Young Lawyer and the War
  • 3 Small Town Lawyer and Politician
  • 4 An Academic Entrepreneur
  • 5 Legal Realist and Firebrand
  • 6 Trustbuster
  • 7 The Short Unhappy Judgeship of Thurman Arnold
  • 8 A Firm Beginning
  • 9 Building a Washington Law Firm
  • 10 Final Fights
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A Cases Decided (Opinion), Concurred, or Dissented by Judge Thurman Arnold (in Chronological Order)
  • Appendix B Principal Writings of Thurman Arnold
  • Appendix C Selected Bibliography of Works about Thurman Arnold and His Times
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author