Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Louis D. Brandeis : American prophet / Jeffrey Rosen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Haven, [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrationContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300160444
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF8745 .L685 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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?
Subject: 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.--
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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?

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.--

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.