The Growth of the Law (SIGNED COPY)

New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1924. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, black cloth with gilt title on spine partially faded. A collection of lectures given by the future Supreme Court judge in the early 20s. INSCRIBED BY CARDOZO on the front fly leaf: "To the Reverend Dr. Stephen S. Wise/With the ever constant/ friendship of/ Benjamin N. Cardozo/ December 1924". Stephen Samuel Wise (March 17, 1874 – April 19, 1949) was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Joining U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and others, Wise laid the groundwork for a democratically elected, nationwide organization of 'ardently Zionist' Jews, 'to represent Jews as a group and not as individuals'.[7] In 1917 he participated in the effort to convince President Woodrow Wilson to approve the Balfour declaration in support of Jewish settlement in Mandate Palestine.[8] In 1918. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Cardozo served on the Court until his death in 1938, and formed part of the liberal bloc of justices known as the Three Musketeers. Record # 375149