Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made

ISBN-13: 9781594482700 / Angielski

Jim Newton

Opis

In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle ofU.S. Supreme Court history whileilluminating both the public and the private Warren. One of the most acclaimed andbest political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumentalwork dedicatedto a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history."