[Rarebooks] FS: OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY AND HOW THE BANKERS USE IT, Inscribed by the First Jew Elected to the U.S. Supreme Court

[Charles Agvent]

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BRANDEIS, Louis D. OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY AND HOW THE BANKERS USE IT. New 
York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (March, 1914). First Edition. A 
collection of essays by the "People's Lawyer" in which Brandeis exposed 
and condemned the market manipulation regularly practiced by big 
bankers, manipulation focused purely on personal profit with no regard 
for the welfare of their clients. Sound familiar? This copy is 
attractively INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: 
"Boston, June 10/14/My Dear Mr. Herzog:/I am glad you have found/'Other 
People's Money' of value./Most Cordially,/Louis D. Brandeis/Paul M. 
Herzog." Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of 
the United States from 1916 to 1939. Early in his career he helped 
develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a Harvard Law Review 
article of that title and was credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as 
having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law". 
After reading OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY, President Woodrow Wilson brought 
Brandeis to Washington to help draft the Federal Reserve Act, the 
Clayton Antitrust Act, and the law establishing the Federal Trade 
Commission. His nomination to the Supreme Court was bitterly contested, 
partly because, as Justice William O. Douglas wrote, "Brandeis was a 
militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He 
was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his 
courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible. . . [and] the 
fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first 
Jew to be named to the Court." Paul M. Herzog was a lawyer and the 
assistant to the secretary of the federal National Labor Board in 1933. 
He left the agency in 1935. Governor Herbert H. Lehman appointed him to 
New York's State Labor Relations Board in 1937 and reappointed him in 
1939. In 1942, Governor Lehman appointed Herzog to be the Chairman of 
the State Labor Board. During his tenure on the State Labor Board, 
Herzog upheld the right of New York City school janitors to join labor 
unions. Herzog quit his post in February 1944 to accept a commission in 
the United States Navy Reserve.         $2,000.00

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