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Melvin urofsky biography

          Urofsky, who has written and edited fifty-two books, has devoted his career to studying America's legal history.

          BIOGRAPHY..

          Impertinent Questions with Melvin I. Urofsky

          What attracted you to Brandeis as a subject?

          His relationship with Woodrow Wilson, which I hoped to turn into a dissertation at Columbia.

          That idea failed, but a few days into the Brandeis Papers at the University of Louisville convinced me that he was a fascinating character tied into many of the important reforms and legal developments of the first half of the twentieth century.

          Biographers often talk about living with their subject.

          What kind of company was he?

          I found him interesting company, but not the sort of man one grows close to.

          Brandeis grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.

          Melvin I. Urofsky is an American historian, and professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University.

        1. In this award-winning biography, Melvin Urofsky gives us a panoramic view of Brandeis's unprecedented impact on American society and law.
        2. BIOGRAPHY.
        3. Melvin I. Urofsky retired as Chair of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Supreme Court History and as a member of the Publications Committee.
        4. American constitutional and legal history; American Jewish history.
        5. How did that shape him?

          Recall that Kentucky was a border state, and that during the Civil War Kentuckians were split in their allegiances. The Brandeis family was pro-Union and antislavery, and that certainly affected him.

          But he also imbibed Southern manners. In his eighties, at a dinner party, he would not sit down until all of the women guests ha