IN Now EMBER 1931, Louis Brandeis celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, and congratulations poured in from everywhere. The New York Times, which had once doubted his fitness to sit on the bench, now declared that "the country, ...
According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness,” in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence.
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Traces the life and career of the great Supreme court justice and discusses his involvement with labor unions, trust busting, women's suffrage, unemployment legislation, and Zionism
A full-scale portrait of the early twentieth-century Supreme Court justice seeks to distinguish his personal life from his achievements as a reformer and jurist, offering additional insight into his role in the development of pro bono legal ...
Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) played a role in almost every important social and economic movement during his long life: trade unionism, trust busting, progressivism, woman suffrage, scientific management, expansion of civil liberties, ...