Brandeis : an intimate biography of Supreme Court Justice Louis J. Brandeis

The life story of the Kentucky-born son of immigrants who became part of American history in 1916 as the first Jewish Supreme Court justice. This vivid biography reflects the fullness of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis’s personal and professional lives. Born in Kentucky shortly before the Civil War, Brandeis rose to national fame as “the people’s attorney”—the first public interest lawyer—and went on to become an adviser to Woodrow Wilson and a confidant of Franklin Roosevelt. Fifteen. The Emergence of a Zionist LeaderSixteen. Fighting for Confirmation; Seventeen. The New Justice; Eighteen. The Invisible Zionist Leader; Nineteen. Protecting Speech; Twenty. Striving for Normalcy; Twenty-One. Curbing Presidential Power; Twenty-Two. Privacy Revisited; Twenty-Three. The Resurrection of a Leader; Twenty-Four. The Review of Social Legislation; Twenty-Five. Old Ideas in New Hands; Twenty-Six. The Born-Again Administration; Twenty-Seven. Packing the Court; Twenty-Eight. The Triumph of Labor; Twenty-Nine. The Passing of "Old Swifty"; Thirty. Final Touches; Acknowledgments