Oral history interview with James McCauley Landis, 1964
Other Titles
Reminiscences of James McCauley Landis, 1964
Abstract
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
Government executives--United States; Lawyers; Law--Study and teaching; Civil defense; Aeronautics, Commercial; Presidents--Election--1956.--United States; Presidents--Election--1960.--United States; United States Politics and government 20th century; Landis, James McCauley, 1899-1964; Harvard University
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1964
Physical Description
685 pages
Note (Biographical)
Lawyer, government official
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010