I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is the only institution one of the country's most respected legal historians

who recently joined me at the National Constitution

Center to discuss his great new book,

Dissent and the Supreme Court.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to part two of the Bill of Rights Book Fair of the National

Constitution Center.

I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution, which is the only institution

in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution

on a non-partisan basis and we had a superb opening to this great 224th

birthday for the Bill of Rights this morning and we have a blockbuster afternoon for you.

I am thrilled, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce you to one of my legal heroes.

The gentleman who you see before you, Melvin Nurovsky, is the

greatest biographer of Louis Brandeis of our time. And as some of you know, I've written a short book about why Brandeis matters today and what he can teach us about contemporary questions, ranging from privacy and free speech and technology to

the curse of bigness and business and government and I learned so much from

Mel who is so generous in reading the manuscript and he is just a model of a scholar of a teacher

who is able to bring to life Brandeis and the many other figures that he's written about so that

citizens around the country can understand it.

He has an extraordinary array of publications in addition to his definitive biography of Brandeis Life.

He's written American books on American Zionism and his latest book which we're here to discuss is so wonderful and so timely and just so

provocative that I couldn't put it down. It's dissent and the Supreme Court, its role in the court's history,

and the nation's constitutional dialogue.

...