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Alpheus Thomas Mason

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Description:When Louis D. Brandeis, son of immigrants, died in 1941, he had long been a revered and influential public figure, and had spent the last twenty-three years of a great career as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. This first full-scale biography gives us the authoritative record; it gives us also a personal appraisal of his character, the influences that shaped him, and the impress that he made on law and life.The author has followed his separate activities through each of the four main periods of his life. First, he is the practicing attorney in Boston, engaged in such famous New England battles as the street railways contest, the fight for savings-bank life insurance, the notorious New Haven Railway affair, and the United Shoe Machinery case. Next, as an attorney on the national scene, he figures in the public-land controversies of the Taft regime, in the role of arbiter for the garment trades, in the railroad freight-rate cases, and in anti-trust activities. The third period takes him onto the political stage, first with La Follette Progressivism, then finding his captain in Wilson and becoming an adviser and spokesman for the Administration, while he reaches out to larger horizons with his great work on behalf of Zionism.Finally comes the period of fulfillment and public service on the Court—helping t shape the Court's understanding of its own powers, working single-mindedly towards an application of law based on fact and democratic needs rather than on rigid precedent, and seeing his efforts rewarded in the Court's later history. (A significant chapter in this section is called "Holes and Brandeis Dissenting.")The story of the Court confirmation fight, one of the bitterest battles in our political history, comes out with political force. In recording that episode—and indeed throughout the book—the author has been able to present all essential facts, so that the record is clear. But he never loses sight of the larger meaning in relation to personal character, to the law, and to the processes of democracy in America, The ambiguities of Brandeis's nature become understandable; he emerges as a true "conservative" seeking to preserve the good by continual adaptation, and as a living embodiment of the free man's struggle for the Right.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Brandeis: A Free Man's Life. To get started finding Brandeis: A Free Man's Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 713

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 1946

ISBN: 0670186872

Description: When Louis D. Brandeis, son of immigrants, died in 1941, he had long been a revered and influential public figure, and had spent the last twenty-three years of a great career as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. This first full-scale biography gives us the authoritative record; it gives us also a personal appraisal of his character, the influences that shaped him, and the impress that he made on law and life.The author has followed his separate activities through each of the four main periods of his life. First, he is the practicing attorney in Boston, engaged in such famous New England battles as the street railways contest, the fight for savings-bank life insurance, the notorious New Haven Railway affair, and the United Shoe Machinery case. Next, as an attorney on the national scene, he figures in the public-land controversies of the Taft regime, in the role of arbiter for the garment trades, in the railroad freight-rate cases, and in anti-trust activities. The third period takes him onto the political stage, first with La Follette Progressivism, then finding his captain in Wilson and becoming an adviser and spokesman for the Administration, while he reaches out to larger horizons with his great work on behalf of Zionism.Finally comes the period of fulfillment and public service on the Court—helping t shape the Court's understanding of its own powers, working single-mindedly towards an application of law based on fact and democratic needs rather than on rigid precedent, and seeing his efforts rewarded in the Court's later history. (A significant chapter in this section is called "Holes and Brandeis Dissenting.")The story of the Court confirmation fight, one of the bitterest battles in our political history, comes out with political force. In recording that episode—and indeed throughout the book—the author has been able to present all essential facts, so that the record is clear. But he never loses sight of the larger meaning in relation to personal character, to the law, and to the processes of democracy in America, The ambiguities of Brandeis's nature become understandable; he emerges as a true "conservative" seeking to preserve the good by continual adaptation, and as a living embodiment of the free man's struggle for the Right.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Brandeis: A Free Man's Life. To get started finding Brandeis: A Free Man's Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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