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Article: Cardozo.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- August 10, 1998
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Cardozo By Andrew L. Kaufman Harvard. 731 pp. $55.00.
BENJAMIN NATHAN CARDOZO ranks with John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Louis D. Brandeis, and Learned Hand as one of America's greatest jurists. In Andrew L. Kaufman he has attracted precisely the right biographer. This monumental volume belongs alongside Gerald Gunther's outstanding 1994 life of Hand.
Marshall, Holmes and Brandeis each achieved their stature as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Hand, who was never appointed to the High Court, nevertheless earned the admiration of his peers and the public as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Cardozo established his ...