Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It

by Brandeis, Louis D.; Urofsky, Melvin I.

• ISBN13: 9780312103149
• ISBN10: 031210314X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

A key document in the Progressive era,Other People's Moneyconveys a sense of moral outrage and political anger over the costs of the industrialization of the United States on traditional social and political values. A thorough introduction and questinos for considerations accompany the full text of Louis Brandeis's 1914 work.

Author Biography

Melvin I. Urofsky is professor of constitutional history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He is coeditor, along with David W. Levy, of the multivolume Letters of Louis D. Brandeis and has also written biographies of Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and Stephen S. Wise. His most recent works include A Conflict of Rights: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action (1991) and Letting Go: Death, Dying, and the Law (1993).

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

 

PART ONE. Louis D. Brandeis, Progressivism, and the Money Trust

 

PART TWO. The Document

Preface by Norman Hapgood

Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It

 

APPENDICES

A Brandeis Chronology (1856-1941)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

 

Index