Justice Stanley Mosk : a life at the center of California politics and justice / Jacqueline R. Braitman and Gerald F. Uelmen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braitman, Jacqueline R., 1953-

Contributor:

Uelmen, Gerald F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--California--Biography.

Judges.

Mosk, Stanley, 1912-2001.

Mosk, Stanley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first biography of Stanley Mosk (1912-2001), iconic protector of civil rights and civil liberties during his 37 years as a justice of the Supreme Court of California (1964 to 2001). It recounts Mosk's previously unexplored pre-Court years where he quickly rose as a leader among Los Angeles reformers, becoming the executive secretary of California governor Culbert Olson and then gaining wide popularity during his 16 years as a superior court judge. Mosk's unprecedented 1958 election and service as state attorney general soon won national attention and the promise of likely election

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Walk Upstairs and Save""; 2. ""What This Fraternity Needs Is More Moreys!""; 3. Lawyers ""Who Should Be Thrown Out of Ten Story Windows""; 4. ""When the Plums Are Passed Out ... You Will Be Left Behind Again""; 5. ""I Crowded the War Off Page One""; 6. ""The Jewish Community Found a Leader""; 7. ""Use Their Heads Instead of Their Hob-Nailed Boots""; 8. ""Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes""; 9. ""A Great Democratic Rain""; 10. ""To Embarrass Them or Pressure Then Sometime in the Future""

11. ""He Never Forgot What His Positions Were""12. ""The Mosk Doctrine""; 13. ""The Melancholy Truth""; 14. ""You Don't Have to Remove Your Shoes Before Stepping All Over Stanley Mosk""; 15. ""But I Blame Jerry Brown for Putting You Here""; 16. ""You Have Remarkable Sources!""; 17. ""I Am Now an Orphan""; 18. ""I Have Never Known Defeat at the Polls""; 19. ""They Have Exalted Principal Over Principle""; 20. ""Where Has All the Grandeur Gone?""; Epilogue; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index of Cases; General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-80573-1

1-4766-0071-6

OCLC:

818658317