
Louis D. Brandeis
American Prophet
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Jeffrey Rosen
A riveting new examination of the leading progressive Supreme Court justice of his era.
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 100th 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 20th 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.
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You achieve it without losing the essence of what it is to write biography as history.
Between this book and the Taft book I’ve walked away with a tremendous amount of easily digestible knowledge I’d not have access to without your efforts. Actually great to listen to Taft and this book in order.
Thank you Jeff!
Wonderful
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Good overview of Brandeis
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A man of character and conviction.
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Well Done & Aptly Named
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Maybe the finest biography I have ever “read”
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A quick, informative enjoyable read!
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Excellent
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Whether you’re on the left, right, center or off the chart, there is something in the book for you to love. That is not to say that all parties will agree on the items they love, but that’s the point. If it was slanted so only one political view point was happy, it wouldn’t be worth reading (or in this case listening to).
Honest and clean biography
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I love Con Law and the SCOTUS. The author speaks to themes that are near and dear to my heart: the size of government, freedom vs. regulation, etc.
I listened to about 1/2 before I gave up.
This book is just too dry and the narration is just too flat.
Disappointed.
I could not make it through
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I was out of luck.
Listening to this book, one would be forgiven for forgetting that Brandies died in 1941. This is because Rosen spends 10% of the book talking about Jefferson and 40% talking about the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, etc. Scant attention to Brandeis the person. Innumerable sentences begin with the phrase "Brandeis would have." Brandeis "would have" approved X, or opposed Y, or have been outraged at Z. After a short while, the phrase "Brandeis would have" grates on the nerves and forewarns you that Rosen is not a biographer, but is simply using Brandeis' name to promote Rosen's progressive agenda.
If you want to learn about and try to understand Brandeis as a person or jurist, this is not the book for you.
Not a Biography
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