Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
By: Brad Snyder
4.38
Format: 957 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-cent…
Want to Read $ 33.24If you liked the nonfiction plot in Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment by Brad Snyder , here is a list of 26 books like this:
1. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
2. The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
By: Thomas Healy
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A gripping intellectual history reveals how conservative justice Oliver Wendell Holmes became a fre… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Thomas Healy's The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
3. The Witches: Salem, 1692
By: Stacy Schiff
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Stacy Schiff's The Witches: Salem, 1692 book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
4. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
By: Erik Larson
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
5. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
7. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in McKay Coppins's Romney: A Reckoning book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
By: Sebastian Mallaby
4.43
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Sebastian Mallaby's The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- nonfiction
- history
"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
10. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahus book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
11. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Beverly Gage's G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
12. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
Want to Read $ 9.00Similar categories in Fintan O'Toole's We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
13. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
14. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Steven Levitsky's Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
15. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
By: Justin Fenton
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Justin Fenton's We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
16. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Joan Biskupic's Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
17. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
Want to Read $ 19.49Similar categories in Oren Kessler's Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
18. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
By: Matthew Dallek
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Matthew Dallek's Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
19. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
By: H.W. Brands
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the sho… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in H.W. Brands's Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
20. To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
By: Noah Feldman
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A leading thinker’s witty, wide-ranging journey to understanding what it means to be a Jew today. … read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Noah Feldman's To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- nonfiction
- history
21. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket bal… read more
Want to Read $ 13.17Similar categories in Stephen Budiansky's Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
22. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
By: Stephen Breyer
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Stephen Breyer's Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
23. Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986
By: James Rosen
4.29
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of th… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in James Rosen's Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986 book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- history
- biography
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
24. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
25. Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
By: Jefferson Morley
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Directo… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Jefferson Morley's Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
26. Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
By: Martin J. Sherwin
4.33
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Martin J. Sherwin's Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
27. Common Good Constitutionalism
By: Adrian Vermeule
3.70
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated i… read more
Want to Read $ 16.00Similar categories in Adrian Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- law
28. Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
By: Brad Snyder
4.38
Format: 957 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-cent… read more
Want to Read $ 33.24Similar categories in Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
29. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
30. The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
By: Larry Tye
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy , a sweeping group portrait… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Larry Tye's The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
31. On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
By: Adam Kirsch
4.24
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. Sin… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice book and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
- politics
- history
