TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosen,Jeffrey
TI  - Louis D. Brandeis: American prophet 
T2  - Jewish lives
SN  - 030015867X
AV  - KF 8745 .B67 R67 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Haven, Connecticut, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Brandeis, Louis D.,
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - Biography
KW  - Judges
KW  - Jewish judges
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-240); Introduction: Isaiah and Jefferson -- 1. The curse of bigness -- 2. Other people's money -- 3. Laboratories of democracy -- 4. The perfect citizen in the perfect state -- Epilogue: What would Brandeis do?
N2  - According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson, " the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness, " in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the twentieth century. In addition to writing the most famous article on the right to privacy, he also wrote the most important Supreme Court opinions about free speech, freedom from government surveillance, and freedom of thought and opinion. And as the leader of the American Zionist movement, he convinced Woodrow Wilson and the British government to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Combining narrative biography with a passionate argument for why Brandeis matters today, Rosen explores what Brandeis, the Jeffersonian prophet, can teach us about historic and contemporary questions involving the Constitution, monopoly, corporate and federal power, technology, privacy, free speech, and Zionism. -- Provided by publisher
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