Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era

• Author(s): David M. Dorsen,
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Pages: 512
• ISBN_10: 0674064933
  ISBN_13: 9780674064935
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Historical , Biography & Autobiography / Lawyers & Judges , Law / Civil Procedure , Law / Courts , Law / Legal History ,

Description:... Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive biography of Friendly, Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases, and how Friendly lived his life.