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Article: Cardozo.(Review) (book reviews)
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- Constitutional Commentary
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- June 22, 1999
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CARDOZO. By Andrew L. Kaufman.(1) Boston, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. Pp. 731. $55.00.
Andrew L. Kaufman's Cardozo is a magnificent new biography of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Cardozo was an influential judge for a quarter of a century--sitting on three courts in five different judicial positions, ultimately serving as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court until his death in 1938. Today, more than 85 years after he began his judicial career and six decades after his death, Cardozo's judicial opinions and other legal writings are still frequently cited, marking him as one of the most influential jurists in the history of the American legal ...