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Podcast: C-SPAN Bookshelf
Episode: BTSA: "The Common Law" by Oliver Wendell Holmes w/ Historian Stephen Budiansky
Description: Our guest this week is historian Stephen Budianksy, who shares his insights into the late Justice's life and work.After serving in the Civil War, during which he was wounded, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. became a scholar and jurist, eventually rising to the U.S. Supreme Court after being nominated by President Theodore Roosevelt.While practicing law in Boston, Holmes summarized a series of lectures he had delivered and had them published in 1881 as a book titled The Common Law. Holmes is known for the maxim, "The life of...