Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People

by Philippa Strum

Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) played a role in almost every important social and economic movement during his long life: trade unionism, trust busting, progressivism, woman suffrage, scientific management, expansion of civil liberties, hours, wages, and unemployment legislation, Wilson's New Freedom, Roosevelt's New Deal. He invented savings bank life insurance and the preferential union shop, became known as the "People's Attorney," and altered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674418689
• ISBN13: 9780674418684
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 523 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"