Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cornell University. He is the author, most recently, of The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process.

"A book crowded with intense, stubborn, vulnerable, idealistic, and mean-spirited people. . . . The kind of social legal history Dickens might have enjoyed."—Nat Hentoff, Washington Post Book World

Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cornell University. He is the author, most recently, of The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process.

"A book crowded with intense, stubborn, vulnerable, idealistic, and mean-spirited people. . . . The kind of social legal history Dickens might have enjoyed."—Nat Hentoff, Washington Post Book World

Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cornell University. He is the author, most recently, of The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process.

"A book crowded with intense, stubborn, vulnerable, idealistic, and mean-spirited people. . . . The kind of social legal history Dickens might have enjoyed."—Nat Hentoff, Washington Post Book World