Lewis J. Paper

Brandeis (eBook, ePUB)

An Intimate Biography of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The life story of the Kentucky-born son of immigrants who became part of American history in 1916 as the first Jewish Supreme Court justice. This vivid biography reflects the fullness of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis's personal and professional lives. Born in Kentucky shortly before the Civil War, Brandeis rose to national fame as "the people's attorney"-the first public interest lawyer-and went on to become an adviser to Woodrow Wilson and a confidant of Franklin Roosevelt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497622746
• Artikelnr.: 44361676

Autorenporträt

Lewis J. Paper, a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, holds a masters in law degree from Georgetown University. While at Harvard he was an editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation and teaching fellow in government at Harvard College. Since then he has held a variety of positions, including a fellowship with the Institute for Public Interest Representation at Georgetown University Law Center, staff attorney with a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., legislative counsel to Senator Gaylord Nelson, and associate general counsel at the Federal Communications Commission. His book John F. Kennedy: The Promise and the Performance was published in 1975, and his articles and book reviews have appeared in numerous periodicals, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Republic, and The American Scholar. Mr. Paper practices law in Washington, D.C.