Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism

by Philippa Strum

Book Overview

Revered as the "People's Attorney," Louis D. Brandeis concluded a distinguished career by serving as an associate justice (1916-1939) of the U.S. Supreme Court. Philippa Strum argues that Brandeis--long recognized as a brilliant legal thinker and defender of traditional civil liberties--was also an important political theorist whose thought has become particularly relevant to the present moment in American politics.

Brandeis, Strum shows, was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700606874
• ISBN13: 9780700606870
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"