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Jeffrey Rosen Talks With Peter Slen About Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “The Common Law”

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Exploring Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s Library

In this chapter, they provide a brief tour of Oliver Wendell Holmes' library, located at the Library of Congress. The library contains 12,000 books and is the largest of his two libraries. They discuss Holmes' famous book, The Common Law, and its significance as a judicial text. They also mention some notable authors whose works are found in Holmes' black book.

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