“Provocative and intriguing” —Annette Gordon-Reed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Remarkable. . . .A major contribution.”—Jonathan D. Sarna, winner of the National Jewish Book Award
“Truly a pathbreaking work”—Stephen F. Knott, author of Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth
“Ingenious” —Jewish Book Council
“Innovative . . . . An invaluable contribution.” —American Nineteenth Century History
“Radical . . . . Porwancher’s prose is extraordinarily bright.” —Reviews in American History
“Absorbing…persuasive.” —Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
“Fantastic…reads like a detective novel.” —Anglican and Episcopal History
The Prophet of Harvard Law is jointly authored by Andrew Porwancher and three of his former students: Jake Mazeitis, Taylor Jipp, and Austin Coffey. It appears in the University Press of Kansas’s series “American Political Thought.”
“[W]ell-written and well-researched . . . This book should be required reading not only for students but for judges as well." —Melvin Urofsky, professor emeritus of history, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Deeply researched, this is the first volume to limn the influence of Thayer and his followers"—Philippa Strum, author of On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law
"In this intriguing book, Andrew Porwancher vividly narrates a classic story." —Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
"Porwancher deftly handles the particulars of this story of love and retribution." —H.W. Brands, author of Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
“[The book] will become the standard work on the subject.” —Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School
“It evidences a close reading of Wigmore’s work and extensive work in the archives at Harvard and Northwestern, bringing to light a good deal of new material on the connections among important figures in ‘legal modernism.’”—Robert P. Burns, Northwestern University School of Law
“flawlessly edited and produced.”—Pennsylvania Bar Association