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Fascinating and illuminating portrayal of William J. Brennan, Jr., who emerged from a nondescript past to become the seminal justice of our times.

Eisler (national editor, Washingtonian Magazine) chronicles the rise and fall of one of the first of the American legal megafirms. The narrative primarily revolves around the clashes between the various personalities involved as they maneuvered within the firm to promote various interests. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.c

The Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970s, however, the legacy of their generations rested on the shoulders of a single elderly woman, upon whose death the Pequots' reservation would fall into government hands. Her grandson, Richard "Skip" Hayward, and other relatives responded to her pleas and kept alive the tribe and its land by coming to live on the reservation.

Journalist Kim Isaac Eisler tells in riveting detail how Hayward and...