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The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process - Softcover

Polenberg, Richard

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Synopsis

The sordid controversies of litigants, Benjamin Cardozo once said, are "the stuff from which great and shining truths will ultimately be shaped" As one of America's most influential judges, first on New York State's Court of Appeals and then on the United States Supreme Court, Cardozo (1870-1938) oversaw this transformation daily. How he arrived at his rulings, with their far-reaching consequences, becomes clear in this book, the first to explore the connections between Benjamin Cardozo's life and his jurisprudence.

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About the Author

Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cornell University.

From the Back Cover

In The World of Benjamin Cardozo, an entertaining contribution to the literature of Cardozo revisionism, Richard Polenberg combines biographical exploration with a reconstruction of the facts of some of Cardozo's most salacious cases...By creatively combining biographical and judicial excavation, Polenberg shows us that Cardozo was a hopeless moralist as well, one who was reluctant to second-guess the morals of his age.-Edward Hower, New York Times Book Review

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