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With all deliberate speed : the life of Philip Elman : an oral history memoir / Norman I. Silber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silber, Norman Isaac.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elman, Philip.
- United States. Solicitor General--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- Government attorneys--United States--Biography.
- Government attorneys.
- Lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Civil rights--United States--History.
- Civil rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A behind-the-scenes look at an unrecognized giant of American legal history and his role in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.
- Contents:
- A very young adult
- Trials at Harvard
- A new clerk, a new judge
- A regulatory interlude
- The towering Justice Frankfurter
- The rift on the Roosevelt court
- The ear and pen of clerks for life
- Redeployment
- Assignment in Germany
- At the office of the Solicitor General
- The gist of the antitrust thrust
- The Solicitor General's office and civil rights
- Unconventional conduct
- The 1960 election
- "Troublemaker" at the Federal Trade Commission
- Reappointment
- The cigarette rule
- Very public acrimony
- Teaching and practice.
- Notes:
- "In Mr. Elman's words, based on interviews at the Columbia Oral History Research Office."--t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613159809
- 9781283159807
- 1283159805
- 9780472024377
- 047202437X
- OCLC:
- 741687239
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