The great justices, 1941-54 : Black, Douglas, Frankfurter & Jackson in chambers / William Domnarski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Domnarski, William, 1953-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court--Biography.

United States.

United States. Supreme Court--History--20th century.

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Great Justices offers a revealing glimpse of a judicial universe in which titanic egos often clash, and comes as close as any book ever has to getting inside the minds of Supreme Court jurists. This is rare and little-examined territory: in the public consciousness the Supreme Court is usually seen as an establishment whose main actors, the justices, remain above emotion, vitriol, and gossip, the better to interpret our nation of laws. Yet the Court's work is always an interchange of ideas and individuals, and the men and women who make up the Court, despite or because of their best intentions, are as human as the rest of us. Appreciating that human dimension helps us to discover some of the Court's secrets, and a new way to understand the Court and its role. Comparing four brilliant but very different jurists of the Roosevelt Court-Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jackson-William Domnarski paints a startling picture of the often deeply ambiguous relationship between ideas and reality, between the law and the justices who interpret and create it. By pulling aside the veil of decorous tradition, Domnarski brings to light the personalities that shaped one of the greatest Courts of our time-one whose decisions continue to affect judicial thinking today. William Domnarski is the author of In the Opinion of the Court (1996), a study of the history and nature of federal court judicial opinions. He holds a J.D. from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California. Domnarski currently practices law in California, where he is also working on a forthcoming biography of legendary Hollywood lawyer Bert Fields.

Contents:

The tragic figure of Robert Jackson

Felix Frankfurter and arrogance rewarded

Hugo Black and the perils of literalism

William O. Douglas : judging and being judged.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612422621

9781282422629

1282422626

9780472021581

0472021583

OCLC:

630756342