Newly released document gives voice to a private justice

“The challenge in writing about Justice Louis Brandeis,” says Brad Snyder, a historian of the Progressive Era and the author of “The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism,” is “that he played things so close to the vest. There’s very little in all the Brandeis scholarship out there about his inner life.”

Biographer Melvin Urofsky, author of “Louis D. Brandeis: A Life,” observes that Brandeis – the co-author of 1890 Harvard Law Review article, “The Right to Privacy,” and a dissenter in Olmstead v. United States, a 1928 Supreme Court decision allowing the federal government to wiretap without a warrant – was “the great apostle of privacy, and he applied it to himself.” He kept his personal life secret.

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