Melvin Urofsky on Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

WKNO | By Justin Willingham,

Jonathan Judaken

Published September 4, 2014 at 7:05 PM CDT

Author and professor Melvin Urofsky discusses his definitive biography, Louis D. Brandeis: A Life.

Host Jonathan Judaken talks with distinguished professor Melvin Urofsky, author or editor of more than fifty books and over one hundred articles and the longtime editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History. Among his many and wide-ranging publications is his definitive biography, Louis D. Brandeis: A Life.

They talk about Supreme Court Justice Brandeis, his background in law, his connections to American Zionism, and his status as "among the preeminent progressives of (his) era."

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