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Louis D. Brandeis : a life / Melvin I. Urofsky.
Van Pelt Library KF8745.B67 U748 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Urofsky, Melvin I.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brandeis, Louis D., 1856-1941.
- Brandeis, Louis D.
- Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- Practice of law.
- History.
- United States.
- Lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Practice of law--United States--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biographie.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 955 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Pantheon Books, [2009]
- Summary:
- The first full-scale biography in 25 years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court--a book that reveals not only Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, but also Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.--Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Preface : The idealistic pragmatist
- Louisville roots
- Harvard, St. Louis, and back
- Warren & Brandeis
- First steps
- Alice
- Traction and utilities
- A perfect reform
- Taking on Morgan
- An attorney for the people
- Democracy in the workplace
- The Pinchot-Ballinger affair
- Railroad interludes
- The curse of bigness
- National politics
- A snapshot of Mr. Brandeis
- The new freedom
- Men! money! discipline!
- Nomination
- Settling in
- Extrajudicial activities: I
- Zionism, 1917-1921
- War and speech
- and Holmes
- Brandeis and Taft
- The Taft court and legal classicism
- A new agenda : the court and civil liberties
- Extrajudicial activities : II
- Depression
- The new deal
- Extrajudicial activities : III
- The passing of Isaiah.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish Book of the Year, Winner, 2009
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780375423666
- 0375423664
- OCLC:
- 290468880
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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