Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805208844 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 506 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Philippa Strum is Professor of Political Science, City University of New York, and a Vice-President of the American Civil Liberties Union
Five Stars Evelyn Busby Great insight in Brandeis' philosophy of justice.. An interesting subject presented somewhat dryly trainreader Louis Brandeis, law student and lawyer extraordinaire, advisor to a number of Presidents (especially Woodrow Wilson) and one of our greatest most visionary Supreme Court Justices, makes for the subject of a compelling biography. As we learn from Phillip Strum, here was a man who was already considered to be. Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People joyce lewis Well written and very informative. Brandeis an individual --not absorbed by financial gain,(He made enough money but knew where to draw the line)--unlike the present political enviroment,he knew how to negotiate while still maintaining his perspective.We could use him today to represent The People.
A truly distinguished work on Brandeis that at last will portray the man in all his magnificent range and versatility, as well as his humanity and intellectual qualities A major contribution to American biography and history Strum has obviously written this from her heart as well as from her head, and the combination of approaches, so peculiarly appropriate for Brandeis, gives a sense of vitality and consequence to almost every page of the book. I expect it will take its place as the major work on Brandeis for years to come. (James MacGregor Burns)
The most significant revelations have to do with his intellectual development. What was not known prior to Strum's research is how far Brandeis carried his beliefs, becoming committed to the goals of worker participation--the sharing of profits and decision making by workers in "manageable"-sized firms. And later, on the Supreme Court, this Athenian conception of human potential took justice Brandeis beyond even Justice Holmes in the determined use of judicial power to protect civil liberties and democracy in an industrialized society.. She shows that this was the source not only of his vision of a democracy based on a human-scaled polis, but also of his sudden emergence, in his late fifties, as the leading American Zionist: he had come to regard Palestine as the locus of a new Athens. He invented savings bank life insurance and the preferential union shop, became known as the "People's Attorney," and altered American jurisprudence as a lawyer and Supreme Court judge. He was adviser to leaders from Robert La Follette to Frances Perkins, William McAdoo to Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson to Harry Truman. This lively account of Brandeis's life and legacy, based on ten years of research in sources not available to previous biographers, reveals much that is new and gives fuller context to personal and historical even