Cardozo is the culmination of forty years of work by the author. It traces Benjamin Cardozo's career from his roots in New York's Sephardic community, through his years at Columbia Law School, his tenure on the Court of Appeals of New York, and finally his service on the Supreme Court of the United States. The World of Benjamin Cardozo analyzes its subject through some of his less famous cases, focusing on areas such as family law, rape, and insanity. The reviewer argues that Cardozo struggled to find a middle path between activism and resistance, and that his contributions to contemporary legal doctrine are attenuated at best. Nevertheless, Cardozo's record illustrates a problem that pervades today's legal environment: even the appellate judge's view of the facts underlying a particular case are skewed by her own life experiences.