Broadcast: 15th May 1939

Starring: Bill Adams

Added: Jun 02 2011

There were two great Americans whop bore the name Oliver Wendell Holmes. One was the famous New England poet; the physician called by men of his generation the autocrat of the breakfast table. His son was perhaps even greater. The story of the second Oliver Wendell Holmes is not so much the record of a man’s life as the development of a man’s mind and it is this story of one of America’s paramount legal philosophers and scholars that The Cavalcade of America tells now.