"The forthright and thoughtful analysis offered in this book is admirable..." -- American Reference Books Annual
Melvin I. Urofsky is a professor of history at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The author and editor of more than two dozen books and over one hundred articles, he edited the multi-volume Letters ofLouis D. Brandeis(1972-1978) with David W. Levy. he is also the author of The Supreme Court Justices: ABiographical Dictionary(Garland, 1994) and of Divisionand Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson,1941-1953 (1997).