Book Review: Bankers and Other People’s Money (1913)

From inside the belly of the beast
by Louis Brandeis
Review by Brian Wright


The Bankers and Other People's MoneySo this is what it looks like on the inside of the Money Trust system. Louis Brandeis was a remarkable public-spirited individual who became a top public-affairs attorney. Graduating from Harvard, he developed a highly successful law practice in Boston. Yet Brandeis was a different breed of lawyer, one who later in his legal career devoted half of his time to legal representation —without fee—of the general public and smaller-business interests against powerful government or corporate interests. This preference of his was almost as uncommon for rich attorneys in those days as it is today. Continue reading