Morgan as the Morgan Bank’s representative in China, and he refused to associate the magazine with “ideological recriminations against his friends and social acquaintances,” according to an explanation accompanying the chart, which is now displayed in the current editor’s office. Straight had worked for Brandeis’s nemesis J. P. Neither the chart nor the article ultimately appeared in TNR. “I want you to understand right away that this chart and article will not be published without your consent,” Croly assured Straight. On one side, the chart connects each of the signers of the petition, led by Harvard President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, to each of the five hubs on the other side, the signers are connected to each other. There are five circles on the chart delineating the various hubs of the Brahmin oligarchy: the Somerset Club, banker, State Street, Back Bay resident, and large corporation connections. Croly enclosed a draft editorial called “The Motive of Class Consciousness,” and also a chart prepared by a lawyer in Brandeis’s office showing the overlapping financial interests, social and business connections, and directorships of fifty-two prominent Bostonians who had signed a petition opposing Brandeis’s nomination. Recorded Monday, Decemat Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies.In 1916, Herbert Croly, the founder and editor of The New Republic, wrote to Willard Straight, the owner of the magazine, about the Supreme Court nomination of Louis Brandeis. Brandeis: A Life, was published by Pantheon in September 2009. A prodigious author and lecturer, he writes widely on constitutional history and has been the editor for the past 17 years of the Journal of Supreme Court History. Urofsky is Professor of Law and Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. He explores Brandeis’ work as a successful lawyer pioneering how law would be practiced in the new era, as a reformer who represented public causes and proposed the idea of pro bono work, as advocate who transformed the moribund American Zionist movement into a political powerhouse, and as a Supreme Court justice who championed the right to privacy and the modern jurisprudence for free speech. Brandeis, one of the towering figures of the 20th century. Urofsky comes to Spertus to discuss his moving portrait of Louis D.

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Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin I. Urofsky