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A Book Tour for the Ages.

By Eric Muller

Recently I was flipping through my dad's law school yearbook (U. of Pennsylvania, Class of 1956) and came across the page devoted to a lecture series called "Booknight" that the law school ran in those days. Authors would come in and talk about their books. The photo on the page captures quite a gathering of intellects. Yes, that's Learned Hand, lecturing alongside Paul Freund and F.S.C. Northrop about his (Hand's) then-recent book "The Spirit of Liberty." (I'm sure Professor Clarence Morris of Penn Law was no slouch either, but I'm not familiar with him.) Now that's what I call a book tour.

Full post as published by Is That Legal on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).