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For half a century Felix Frankfurter played a significant role in American life. Beginning with the administrations of William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson and climaxing with FDR's, he was intimately involved in the machinery of Presidential policy making. On the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 he was a brilliant jurist who distinguished himself as a leader of the advocates of "judicial restraint." And at Harvard Law School, where he became a legend in his own lifetime, he was one of the nation's foremost scholars of the Constitution. Based in part on his personal papers, this new and freshly evaluated life of Felix Frankfurter concentrates on these three vital aspects of his career. It also offers a vivid, incisive portrait of a man about whom few people could be neutral....