
Democratic Justice
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The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy.
Scholars have portrayed Felix Frankfurter—Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice—as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and Warren Court villain. Yet as Brad Snyder reveals, Frankfurter was a pro-government, pro-civil rights liberal. He helped found the ACLU, rejected shifting political labels, and practiced judicial restraint. A disciple of Oliver Wendell Holmes and a protégé of Louis Brandeis, he thrived as a power broker for FDR and as a talent scout for the liberal establishment. (Former students and clerks included Dean Acheson, Elliot Richardson, and Richard Goodwin.)
This sweeping narrative illuminates how an Austrian immigrant befriended presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson, led calls for a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti, and helped achieve a unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education. The result is a full and fascinating portrait of a lawyer and Supreme Court justice who championed democracy.
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- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction: A Presidential Visit
- Chapter 1: Miss Hogan
- Chapter 2: A Quasi-Religious Feeling
- Chapter 3: The Dominant Impulses of Your Nature
- Chapter 4: The House of Truth
- Chapter 5: To a Man, We Want Frankfurter
- Chapter 6: Not Brandeis's Fight, but Our Fight
- Chapter 7: These Days We Are All Soldiers
- Chapter 8: Personalia in Paris
- Chapter 9: A Dangerous Man
- Chapter 10: The Possible Gain Isn't Worth the Cost
- Chapter 11: The True Function of a "Liberal"
- Chapter 12: Let Mr. Lowell Resign
- Chapter 13: The Most Useful Lawyer in the United States
- Chapter 14: From the Outside
- Chapter 15: The Happy Hot Dogs
- Chapter 16: Charming Exile
- Chapter 17: The Most Influential Single Individual in the United States
- Chapter 18: An Awful Shock
- Chapter 19: Sorta Tough Ain't It!
- Chapter 20: The Oddest Collection of People
- Chapter 21: The Brandeis Way
- Chapter 22: Preaching the True Democratic Faith
- Chapter 23: Uncle Felix and Aunt Marion
- Chapter 24: F. F.'s Soliloquy
- Chapter 25: A Great Enemy of Liberalism
- Chapter 26: Race, Redemption, and Roosevelt
- Chapter 27: The Real Architect of the Victory
- Chapter 28: Frankfurter against Black
- Chapter 29: My Eyes Hath Seen the Glory of the Coming of the Lord
- Chapter 30: I Don't Care What Color a Man Has
- Chapter 31: The Frankfurter Cult on Trial
- Chapter 32: The First Solid Piece of Evidence There Really Is a God
- Chapter 33: The Wise Use of Time
- Chapter 34: All Deliberate Speed
- Chapter 35: Red Monday
- Chapter 36: The Judicial Response to Little Rock
- Chapter 37: A Health Scare
- Chapter 38: The Political Thicket
- Chapter 39: Father to Them All
- Epilogue
- Illustrations Insert
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Also by Brad Snyder
- Copyright
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