Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cornell University.

• Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: A Man of Fastidious Reticence Such a Delicate Youth The Insanity Defense Scholars and Universities Gender and Sexuality Religion and the State Law and Order Epilogue: A Contested Legacy Notes Manuscript Sources Selected Bibliography Index

In The World of Benjamin Cardozo, an entertaining contribution to the literature of Cardozo revisionism, Richard Polenberg combines biographical exploration with a reconstruction of the facts of some of Cardozo's most salacious cases...By creatively combining biographical and judicial excavation, Polenberg shows us that Cardozo was a hopeless moralist as well, one who was reluctant to second-guess the morals of his age.

Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cornell University.

• Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: A Man of Fastidious Reticence Such a Delicate Youth The Insanity Defense Scholars and Universities Gender and Sexuality Religion and the State Law and Order Epilogue: A Contested Legacy Notes Manuscript Sources Selected Bibliography Index

In The World of Benjamin Cardozo, an entertaining contribution to the literature of Cardozo revisionism, Richard Polenberg combines biographical exploration with a reconstruction of the facts of some of Cardozo's most salacious cases...By creatively combining biographical and judicial excavation, Polenberg shows us that Cardozo was a hopeless moralist as well, one who was reluctant to second-guess the morals of his age.

Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cornell University.

• Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: A Man of Fastidious Reticence Such a Delicate Youth The Insanity Defense Scholars and Universities Gender and Sexuality Religion and the State Law and Order Epilogue: A Contested Legacy Notes Manuscript Sources Selected Bibliography Index

In The World of Benjamin Cardozo, an entertaining contribution to the literature of Cardozo revisionism, Richard Polenberg combines biographical exploration with a reconstruction of the facts of some of Cardozo's most salacious cases...By creatively combining biographical and judicial excavation, Polenberg shows us that Cardozo was a hopeless moralist as well, one who was reluctant to second-guess the morals of his age.