Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment

by Brad Snyder and Brad Snyder

Book Overview

The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter--Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice--is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and the Warren Court's principal villain. And yet none of these characterizations rings true.

A pro-government, pro-civil rights liberal who rejected shifting political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324004878
• ISBN13: 9781324004875
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 992 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"