by Melvin I. Urofsky

In the first full-scale biography written about Louis D. Brandeis in 25 years, author Melvin Urofsky delves into the life of one of the most important and distinguished justices to ever sit on the Supreme Court. This book reveals Brandeis as a reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.

Brandeis pioneered how modern law is practiced introducing the idea of pro bono work. He was an economist and moralist warned in 1914 that banking and stock brokering must be separate. Brandeis was also a Jew who witnessed and suffered from anti-Semitism and at age 58 became the head of the American Zionist movement.

This huge and galvanizing biography is a revelation of one man's effect on American society and jurisprudence, and the electrifying story of his time.

Hardcover.

Pantheon Books.