New from Yale University Press:
Louis D. Brandeis American Prophet, by
Jeffrey Rosen (George Washington University Law School). A description from the Press:
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.
An advance review:
“Rosen's angle on Brandeis is crisp, fresh and incisive, with striking
relevance to modern-day issues concerning (among other things) corporate
power, the problems of big government, an economy at risk from huge
financial institutions that are too big to fail, and the future of
Israel as a democratic Jewish state.”—Akhil Reed Amar
More information is available
here.
