Louis D. Brandeis

A Life

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Release Date: 09/04/2012
Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
Classification: Nonfiction
Classification: Nonfiction
Series: N/A
Language: English
Format: Unabridged edition
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics
Author: Melvin I. Urofsky
Read by: Sean Pratt
Duration: 2114 minutes
Run Time: 2114 minutes
Language: English
Language: English
28 Audio CD(s) - 9781520019987
2 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781520020006

Louis D. Brandeis

A Life

By Melvin I. Urofsky

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics

Audio CD

06/21/2016

28 Audio CD

2114 minutes

9781520019987

Audio MP3 CD

06/21/2016

2 Audio MP3 CD

2114 minutes

9781520020006

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As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he pioneered how modern law is practiced. The author of the right to privacy, he led the way in creating the role of the lawyer as counselor and pioneered the idea of pro bono public work by attorneys. Named to the Supreme Court, Brandeis, ranked as one of the nation's leading progressive reformers. He invented savings bank life insurance in Massachusetts and was a driving force in the development of the Federal Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the law establishing the Federal Trade Commission. The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court: a reformer, lawyer, and jurist.

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[A] monumental, authoritative and appreciative biography of the man Franklin D. Roosevelt called Isaiah . . . [Urofsky] demonstrates, deploying a Brandeisan array of factual material, why Brandeis still matters, nearly 70 years after his death., Alan Dershowitz, , New York Times Book Review

Melvin Urofsky's lapidary new biography is a rich study of a remarkable life., The Economist

Will likely stand as the definitive Brandeis biography for many years., The Boston Globe

A comprehensive biography of an American legal giant. . . likely to become the standard biography. . .An authoritative, impressive assessment of a man whose legal reasoning continues to influence our republic., Kirkus

Conveys the vast scope of Brandeis's fascinating life with energy, verve and immediacy. . . Brandeis comes alive as a passionate progressive who dedicated his life and career to improving the lives of others. Comprehensive and highly readable., Chicago Tribune

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