He received the American Library Association's Liberty and Justice Award for ''Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law,'' described in the award as ''the most distinguished book of 1956 in history and biography.'' For the same book, he also received the Francis Parkman Prize in history. His ''Brandeis, A Free Man's Life,'' sold over 50,000 copies and remained on the best-seller list for five months in 1947. Stone, one on Chief Justice William Howard Taft and several on critical periods and issues in the history of the Supreme Court. Brandeis, another on Associate Justice Harlan F. Mason was the author of 22 books, and his course in constitutional interpretation, offered in the politics department, was voted the school's toughest in student polls several times before he retired.Īmong his published works are four volumes on Associate Justice Louis D. A quote by American Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856 - 1951) as quoted in Brandeis: A Free Mans Life by Alpheus Thomas Mason Viking. Alpheus Thomas Mason, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton University and one of the country's foremost judicial biographers, died yesterday at his home in Princeton, N.J., after a long illness.
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