Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who will be eighty years old Nov. 13, regards his gifts of more than a half million dollars to Jewish enterprises in Palestine as “his best investment,” according to a biography by Alfred Lief, published today.
The volume, entitled “Brandeis: The Personal History of an American Ideal,” is published by Stackpole Sons. It traces Mr. Brandeis’ career as a lawyer and dwells on his public services, his views on economics, the judiciary and many questions of the day.
The book quotes Albert Einstein’s observation on Mr. Brandeis, made to the author, “I treasure the memory of my only visit to him: a person of swift and clear insight, of keen conviction, wanting nothing but to serve society, and serving it in the loneliness of a great work.”
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