Book Review: Defending Mohammad: Justice on Trial

• DOI: 10.1177/0734016805275701
• Author: Elizabeth M. Corzine
• Date: 01 May 2005
• Published date: 01 May 2005
• Subject Matter: Articles

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The letters in this volume also demonstrate the concern that Brandeis had for the members
of his family. In a letter to Susan Brandeis on her 21st birthday, he tells her of the importance
of keeping a budget and learning the “proper system and good habits of life” (p. 241). His
activist, political nature is also indirectly apparent in this letter as he claims to send her extra
money that she should use as donations to public causes of her interest. In his later years, his
letters to Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush and her husband still contained many references
to the politics of the time. The delight in the reelection of longtime friend, Senator La
Follette, illustrates Brandeis’s lifelong support of the Progressive movement and his interest
in keeping abreast of political issues. Indeed, he is consumed with talk of overcoming the
Depression, as he tells Elizabeth, “I hope you can make your progressives see this truth” (p.
533). Thus, these letters are evidence that to Brandeis, his role in policy formation and his
family were his entire world.
Overall, this volume is another contribution of a series of meticulous and excellent edito-
rial endeavors by Urofsky and Levy. The letters in this volume will fill in any voids in the pre-
vious collections, particularly because they are able to include the letters from Nutter,
McClennan, and Fish. Equally as important are the letters that paint a never-before-seen por-
trait of Brandeis’s family life. This volume should prove to be a useful tool for scholars and a
resource for anyone who is interested in the life and work of one of the most notable justices
ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court bench.
Jennifer Byrne
University of Arizona
Defending Mohammad: Justice on Trial, by Robert E. Precht. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 2003, 183 pp.
DOI: 10.1177/0734016805275701
In the author’s preface, Precht asserts his belief that a terrorism defendant can receive a fair
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