The reminiscences of James M. Landis

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Lawyer, government official. Topics include: family background; childhood and education in Japan and United States; Harvard Law School ;early legal writings; secretary to Justice Louis Brandeis; professor, Harvard, 1926-34; government service, 1933-37; Dean, Harvard Law School, 1937-46; later government service: Civil Defense, World War II; Civil Aeronautics Board; Middle East; government studies and reports, 1953-60; 1956 and 1960 campaigns, elections; presidential adviser. Comments on Justices Felix Frankfurter, Oliver W. Holmes, and Benjamin Cardozo; Samuel Williston, Roscoe Pound, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph P. Kennedy, John L. Lewis, Fiorello La Guardia, King Farouk, Lord Moyne.