Brad Snyder teaches law at the University of Wisconsin and is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

"For the first time, we have the real story of this incredible little galaxy that included such disparate figures as Felix Frankfurter, Walter Lippmann, and Gutzon Borglum, and reached out to cultivate and invigorate the aged Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes--with profound and lasting influence on the course of American politics. Brad Snyder tells this story with verve and insight. This is a major work in the history of this nation's public life." -- John MiltonCooper, Jr., author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography"With his deep understanding of history and the law, Brad Snyder has crafted a notably illuminating and refreshing book. Deeply researched and finely written, The House of Truth brings to life a group of brilliant friends whose passion for justice helped shape what became known as the American Century." -- David Maraniss, author of Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story"This dazzling book provokes reconsideration of the Progressive era, legal reform and modern American liberalism. I know of no other work that so ably transports its readers into the packed and exciting years of the early twentieth century." -- Laura Kalman, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara"The author's focus on the significance of the Supreme Court makes the book unusually timely. An accomplished, authoritative history of American liberalism."--Kirkus"Lengthy, lively, and exhaustively researched... At its best, which is much of the text, The House of Truth does what history can do to evoke the past, explain its issues, re-create its personages and illuminate the present."--The Wall Street Journal"The legal historian Brad Snyder has reconstructed the glories of this group house in a bulging, careful study of its inhabitants... Snyder's account usefully maps a hinge moment in American political history."--The Atlantic, Franklin Foer"This is a highly readable volume from which both experts and the merely curious can profit."--CHOICE Reviews

• DedicationIntroduction Chapter 1: Expanding Horizons Chapter 2: 1727 Nineteenth Street Chapter 3: The Call of the Moose Chapter 4: The Center of the Universe Chapter 5: Buddha Chapter 6: The Soldier's Faith Chapter 7: Temperamentally Unfit Chapter 8: Our Founder Chapter 9: Fighting Valentine's Fight Chapter 10: The House at War Chapter 11: One Man War Chapter 12: Uniting the Labor Army Chapter 13: The Inquiry Chapter 14: The Wonderful One Chapter 15: The H/T Cannot Be Re-constituted Chapter 16: Harvard's Dangerous Men Chapter 17: Touched with Fire Chapter 18: Protestant of Nordic Stock Chapter 19: We Live By Symbols Chapter 20: The 1924 Election and the Basic Issues of Liberalism Chapter 21: Eloquence May Set Fire to Reason Chapter 22: A Fly on an Elephant Chapter 23: No Ordinary Case Chapter 24: This World Cares More for Red than for Black Chapter 25: A Damn Poor Psychologist Chapter 26: The Happy Warrior Chapter 27: Freedom for the Thought that We Hate Chapter 28: America's Shrine for Political Democracy Chapter 29: The Best Men Chapter 30: A Very Great Beginning Chapter 31: The Hard Case Has Melted Epilogue Appendix Photo Credits and Bibliography Acknowledgments

Brad Snyder teaches law at the University of Wisconsin and is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

"For the first time, we have the real story of this incredible little galaxy that included such disparate figures as Felix Frankfurter, Walter Lippmann, and Gutzon Borglum, and reached out to cultivate and invigorate the aged Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes--with profound and lasting influence on the course of American politics. Brad Snyder tells this story with verve and insight. This is a major work in the history of this nation's public life." -- John MiltonCooper, Jr., author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography"With his deep understanding of history and the law, Brad Snyder has crafted a notably illuminating and refreshing book. Deeply researched and finely written, The House of Truth brings to life a group of brilliant friends whose passion for justice helped shape what became known as the American Century." -- David Maraniss, author of Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story"This dazzling book provokes reconsideration of the Progressive era, legal reform and modern American liberalism. I know of no other work that so ably transports its readers into the packed and exciting years of the early twentieth century." -- Laura Kalman, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara"The author's focus on the significance of the Supreme Court makes the book unusually timely. An accomplished, authoritative history of American liberalism."--Kirkus"Lengthy, lively, and exhaustively researched... At its best, which is much of the text, The House of Truth does what history can do to evoke the past, explain its issues, re-create its personages and illuminate the present."--The Wall Street Journal"The legal historian Brad Snyder has reconstructed the glories of this group house in a bulging, careful study of its inhabitants... Snyder's account usefully maps a hinge moment in American political history."--The Atlantic, Franklin Foer"This is a highly readable volume from which both experts and the merely curious can profit."--CHOICE Reviews

• DedicationIntroduction Chapter 1: Expanding Horizons Chapter 2: 1727 Nineteenth Street Chapter 3: The Call of the Moose Chapter 4: The Center of the Universe Chapter 5: Buddha Chapter 6: The Soldier's Faith Chapter 7: Temperamentally Unfit Chapter 8: Our Founder Chapter 9: Fighting Valentine's Fight Chapter 10: The House at War Chapter 11: One Man War Chapter 12: Uniting the Labor Army Chapter 13: The Inquiry Chapter 14: The Wonderful One Chapter 15: The H/T Cannot Be Re-constituted Chapter 16: Harvard's Dangerous Men Chapter 17: Touched with Fire Chapter 18: Protestant of Nordic Stock Chapter 19: We Live By Symbols Chapter 20: The 1924 Election and the Basic Issues of Liberalism Chapter 21: Eloquence May Set Fire to Reason Chapter 22: A Fly on an Elephant Chapter 23: No Ordinary Case Chapter 24: This World Cares More for Red than for Black Chapter 25: A Damn Poor Psychologist Chapter 26: The Happy Warrior Chapter 27: Freedom for the Thought that We Hate Chapter 28: America's Shrine for Political Democracy Chapter 29: The Best Men Chapter 30: A Very Great Beginning Chapter 31: The Hard Case Has Melted Epilogue Appendix Photo Credits and Bibliography Acknowledgments

Brad Snyder teaches law at the University of Wisconsin and is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

"For the first time, we have the real story of this incredible little galaxy that included such disparate figures as Felix Frankfurter, Walter Lippmann, and Gutzon Borglum, and reached out to cultivate and invigorate the aged Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes--with profound and lasting influence on the course of American politics. Brad Snyder tells this story with verve and insight. This is a major work in the history of this nation's public life." -- John MiltonCooper, Jr., author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography"With his deep understanding of history and the law, Brad Snyder has crafted a notably illuminating and refreshing book. Deeply researched and finely written, The House of Truth brings to life a group of brilliant friends whose passion for justice helped shape what became known as the American Century." -- David Maraniss, author of Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story"This dazzling book provokes reconsideration of the Progressive era, legal reform and modern American liberalism. I know of no other work that so ably transports its readers into the packed and exciting years of the early twentieth century." -- Laura Kalman, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara"The author's focus on the significance of the Supreme Court makes the book unusually timely. An accomplished, authoritative history of American liberalism."--Kirkus"Lengthy, lively, and exhaustively researched... At its best, which is much of the text, The House of Truth does what history can do to evoke the past, explain its issues, re-create its personages and illuminate the present."--The Wall Street Journal"The legal historian Brad Snyder has reconstructed the glories of this group house in a bulging, careful study of its inhabitants... Snyder's account usefully maps a hinge moment in American political history."--The Atlantic, Franklin Foer"This is a highly readable volume from which both experts and the merely curious can profit."--CHOICE Reviews

• DedicationIntroduction Chapter 1: Expanding Horizons Chapter 2: 1727 Nineteenth Street Chapter 3: The Call of the Moose Chapter 4: The Center of the Universe Chapter 5: Buddha Chapter 6: The Soldier's Faith Chapter 7: Temperamentally Unfit Chapter 8: Our Founder Chapter 9: Fighting Valentine's Fight Chapter 10: The House at War Chapter 11: One Man War Chapter 12: Uniting the Labor Army Chapter 13: The Inquiry Chapter 14: The Wonderful One Chapter 15: The H/T Cannot Be Re-constituted Chapter 16: Harvard's Dangerous Men Chapter 17: Touched with Fire Chapter 18: Protestant of Nordic Stock Chapter 19: We Live By Symbols Chapter 20: The 1924 Election and the Basic Issues of Liberalism Chapter 21: Eloquence May Set Fire to Reason Chapter 22: A Fly on an Elephant Chapter 23: No Ordinary Case Chapter 24: This World Cares More for Red than for Black Chapter 25: A Damn Poor Psychologist Chapter 26: The Happy Warrior Chapter 27: Freedom for the Thought that We Hate Chapter 28: America's Shrine for Political Democracy Chapter 29: The Best Men Chapter 30: A Very Great Beginning Chapter 31: The Hard Case Has Melted Epilogue Appendix Photo Credits and Bibliography Acknowledgments