by Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-226-67556-5 | eISBN: 978-0-226-71568-1 | Cloth: 978-0-226-67555-8
Library of Congress Classification KF8745.C3P64 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification 347.7314

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
What makes a great judge? How are reputations forged? Why do some reputations endure, while others crumble? And how can we know whether a reputation is fairly deserved? In this ambitious book, Richard Posner confronts these questions in the case of Benjamin Cardozo. The result is both a revealing portrait of one of the most influential legal minds of our century and a model for a new kind of study—a balanced, objective, critical assessment of a judicial career.

"The present compact and unflaggingly interesting volume . . . is a full-bodied scholarly biography. . . .It is illuminating in itself, and will serve as a significant contribution."—Paul A. Freund, New York Times Book Review


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