He has done a magnificent job, covering every phase of his life, with main focus on his professional and public service, but with enough of his personal life, enough of his friends- and his enemies- and the personalities who crossed his path, enough of anecdote and minor incident, to give the book- and its subject- lasting vitality. Rooted in years of study, evidenced by previous publications on Brandeis, the biographer reveals to his readers Louis Brandeis, the people's lawyer who became a Justice of the Supreme Court. Hein & Co., Inc.In a great biography the author has done full justice to a great man - and given it a symbolism that makes it virtually a composite of American social history during a half century. Please contact us to request purchasing information. Moore's point of view and sympathies, of a prophet who has lived to see something of his forecastings come true in President Roosevelt's handling of American affairs." - 20 A.B.A.
Mason's book is rather a tour de force - a happy finding, from Mr. Justice Brandeis' philosophy and spirit.Mr. Justice Brandeis. The preface and methods of the work have, however, a more immediate purpose not unconnected with the economic aims of the present administration in the United States, in which the author sees the practical application of much of Mr. Mr.Mason's book aims at a consideration of the public-welfare activities, the idealogy, the constitutional principles of Mr. The primary authority on Brandeis.-Goodhart: 70. Subjects: BIOGRAPHY/WRITINGS ON LEGAL MINDS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, LEGISLATIVE HISTORY, LEGAL HISTORY Published: New York The Viking Press 1946. BRANDEIS A FREE MAN'S LIFE Mason, Alpheus Thomas
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