BRANDEIS, Louis D. Compiled and with Introductory Notes by Alfred Lief. Foreword by Charles Beard.
The Social and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Brandeis.
New York: The Vanguard Press , 1930.
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The Social and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Brandeis
First edition, second printing of this classic appreciation of the early twentieth century Supreme Court Justice. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis Dembitz Brandeis to a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States. His nomination was bitterly contested, partly because, as Justice William O. Douglas later wrote, "Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible ... [and] the fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first Jew to be named to the Court." "Vying in interest with the recently issued 'Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes' is this volume composed of extracts from the legal and other papers of Justice Louis Brandeis, Justice Holmes' colleague on the bench of the United States Supreme Court. It would be difficult to exaggerate the effect of these pronouncements not, indeed, upon the body of law already assimilated and codified, but upon the law that is to be called into being in response to the new needs of the nation and the new conditions produced by the twentieth-century developments of the industrial revolution" (Charles A. Beard, Foreword).
The Social and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Brandeis.
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