Democratic Justice
The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy
The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter―Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice―is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justi...
The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy
The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter―Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice―is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justi...
