Louis D. Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis is known to most people as one of the giants of American constitutional law. Among Progres­sives he led the attack against monopolies and what he termed the “curse of bigness,” charging that the large banks, headed by J. P. Morgan, had created a money trust. In 1912 a congres­sional committee held extensive hearings that uncovered how those banks used their financial power to dominate American industry. Brandeis took these revelations and interpreted them into popular language in this book.