Description: "Originally published in hardcover by Pantheon Books, a division of Random Hoese, Inc., Mew York, in 2009."--T.p. verso.
Review Quotes: "Will likely stand as the definitive Brandeis biography for many years."
--The Boston Globe
"Utterly fascinating . . . Urofsky's remarkable book has innumerable passages that amaze . . . [It] captures the sweep and the details of that life with what has to be called devotion . . . his achievement is remarkable."
--Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books
--The New Yorker "Melvin Urofsky's lapidary new biography is a rich study of a remarkable life."
--The Economist "Conveys the vast scope of Brandeis's fascinating life with energy, verve and immediacy. . . Brandeis comes alive as a passionate progressive who dedicated his life and career to improving the lives of others. Comprehensive and highly readable."
--Chicago Tribune
"[A] monumental, authoritative and appreciative biography of the man Franklin D. Roosevelt called "Isaiah" . . . [Urofsky] demonstrates, deploying a Brandeisan array of factual material, why Brandeis still matters, nearly 70 years after his death."
--Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Times Book Review
"A comprehensive biography of an American legal giant. . . likely to become the standard biography. . .An authoritative, impressive assessment of a man whose legal reasoning continues to influence our republic."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred)