Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment

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 justice, and the Warren Court's principal villain. And yet none of these characterizations rings tr...