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Snyder, Brad, 1972- author.

Democratic justice : Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the making of the liberal establishment / Brad Snyder.

First edition.

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]

979 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"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. ... This ... 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"--Publisher marketing. by publisher.

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.

United States. Supreme Court -- Biography.

Judges -- United States -- Biography.

Jews -- United States -- Biography.

Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Miss Hogan -- A quasi-religious feeling -- The dominant impulses of your nature -- The house of truth -- To a man, we want Frankfurter -- Not Brandeis's fight, but our fight -- These days we are all soldiers -- Personalia in Paris -- A dangerous man -- The possible gain isn't worth the cost -- The true function of a "liberal" -- Let Mr. Lowell resign -- The most useful lawyer in the United States -- From the outside -- The happy hot dogs -- Charming exile -- The most influential single individual in the United States -- An awful shock -- Sorta tough ain't it! -- The oddest collection of people -- The Brandeis way -- Preaching the true democratic faith uncle Felix and aunt Marion -- F. F.'s soliloquy -- A great enemy of liberalism -- Race, redemption, and Roosevelt -- The real architect of the victory -- Frankfurter against black -- My eyes hath seen the glory of the coming of the lord -- I don't care what color a man has -- The Frankfurter cult on trial -- The first solid piece of evidence there really is a god -- The wise use of time -- All deliberate speed -- Red Monday -- The judicial response to little rock -- A health scare -- The political thicket -- Father to them all.

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