Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700606033 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Well written and relevant for today" according to Scott A. Cronk. I greatly enjoyed reading this book and found much of Brandeis' early 20th century thought relevant to our lives today. I highly recommend this book. In fact I liked it so much I ended up buying three more books about Brandeis!. "Excellent book" according to Lewis Ward. Brandeis was one of the greatest legal minds in American history and this book distills his philosophy in a concise and well-documented manner.
-- Washington Post Book World.. Anyone with an interest in this icon of our law and public policy should not miss this excellent book
Philippa Strum, professor of political science at the City University of New York-Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, is author of numerous books, including When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate, Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People, The Supreme Court and "Political Questions," and Presid
The 85-year-old Brandeis died in 1941. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Strum concludes that, since Brandeis's thought was derived from "the American experiences of industrialization," his ideas mainly addressed economics and that he was less concerned with issues of sexism and racism. Before he joined the Supreme Court, on which he served between 1916 and 1939, Brandies argued in a speech that the Constitution's right to life implied a minimal level of freedom from want; as a justice, the forward-looking Brandeis emphasized the importance of individual rights of speech and privacy. Though New Dealers saw his opposition to large institutions as nostalgic and naive, Strum suggests that Brandeis's pragmatic approach to social problems remains r