Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet

Jeffrey Rosen (George Washington University Law School), Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet (Yale Univ. Press 2016).

"According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was 'the Jewish Jefferson,' the greatest critic of what he called 'the curse of bigness,' in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the twentieth century. In addition to writing the most famous article on the right to privacy, he also wrote the most important Supreme Court opinions about free speech, freedom from government surveillance, and freedom of thought and opinion. And as the leader of the American Zionist movement, he convinced Woodrow Wilson and the British government to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Combining narrative biography with a passionate argument for why Brandeis matters today, Rosen explores what Brandeis, the Jeffersonian prophet, can teach us about historic and contemporary questions involving the Constitution, monopoly, corporate and federal power, technology, privacy, free speech, and Zionism."

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Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture

Naomi Cahn (George Washington University Law School) and June Carbone (University of Missouri- Kansas City). Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010).

"Red Families v. Blue Families is a fascinating, groundbreaking look at the ways in which the red versus blue political divide reflects an even deeper divide in family life and sexual values. Cahn and Carbone have updated the old maxim that the personal is political, and enormously enriched it, with hard data and subtle observations."

--Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker