Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805211950 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 976 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this award-winning biography, Melvin Urofsky gives us a panoramic view of Brandeis’s unprecedented impact on American society and law.. During the brutal six-month congressional confirmation battle that ensued when Woodrow Wilson nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1916, Brandeis was described as “a disturbing element in any gentlemen’s club.” But once on the Court, he became one of its most influential members, developing the modern jurisprudence of free speech and the doctrine of a constitutionally protected right to privacy and suggesting what became known as the doctrine of i
"A Magnificent Biography of Justice Brandeis" according to Ronald H. Clark. This new biography of Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-19A Magnificent Biography of Justice Brandeis Ronald H. Clark This new biography of Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) is the most extensive study we have of the Justice. It runs over 900 pages including extensive notes. Who better to undertake such a task than Professor Urofsky, who has edited 7 volumes of Brandeis letters, written several prior book-length studies of the Justice, and authored numerous articles discus. 1) is the most extensive study we have of the Justice. It runs over 900 pages including extensive notes. Who better to undertake such a task than Professor Urofsky, who has edited 7 volumes of Brandeis letters, written several prior book-length studies of the Justice, and authored numerous articles discus. Klaus Hansen said An American for all seasons. In "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life," author Melvin Urofsky has achieved, above all, three things--a history of the life and times of an American who put an indelible mark on his country at a time of monumental political, intellectual, and social change, encompassed by the progressive era; of a liberal Jew who helped in integrating the Jewish religion and culture int. Urofsky is to judicial biography what McCullough is to Presidential biography Alex J. Mili Jr. It is evident that Urofsky is an outstanding history professor at UCV because the chapters of this book are pedagogically arranged like a syllabus for a graduate-level seminar course. This book is lengthy and comprehensive, but easily digested and well organized. I am a big fan of David McCullough's presidential biographies (Truman, John Adams) because McCullou
UROFSKY is professor of law and public policy and a professor emeritus of history at Virginia Commonwealth University.. MELVIN I
Dershowitz, New York Times Book Review "A comprehensive biography of an American legal giantlikely to become the standard biography .An authoritative, impressive assessment of a man whose legal reasoning continues to influence our republic."—Kirkus Reviews (starred). "Will likely stand as the definitive Brandeis biography for many years." —The Boston Globe“Utterly fascinating Urofsky’s remarkable book has innumerable passages that amaze It captures the sweep and the details of that life with what has to be called devotion his achievement is remarkable.”—Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books “A