![]() ![]() ![]() He fought powerful interests like the Boston Traction Company, the New Haven Railway, the United Shoe Corporation, and the big interests when they were at odds with the people, in his eyes. Louis, Boston, New York and Washington, where he had become a national figure. First his boyhood in Louisville during the Civil War, then the search for learning that lasted through life and took him to Dresden, to Harvard Law, and - in practice- to St. 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. 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. ![]()
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