By Melvin I. Urofsky, Pantheon Books, New York, N.Y. 953 pages, $40
‘I am a part of all that I have met,” declaimed Tennyson’s Ulysses. Louis D. Brandeis might have echoed those words when in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court. In “Louis D. Brandeis: A Life,” Melvin I. Urofsky, professor emeritus of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, emphasizes that upon embarking on a judicial career, his subject had already distinguished himself as a lawyer, as a reformer and as a Zionist.
