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Justice Brennan : Liberal Champion / Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, Seth (Seth Ross), 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- United States. Supreme Court--Biography.
- United States.
- Brennan, William J. (William Joseph), 1906-1997.
- Brennan, William J.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 674 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
- Summary:
- First paperback edition of the celebrated insider study of William Brennan (1906-1997), widely considered the Supreme Court's most influential twentieth-century justice, as well as its greatest liberal and preeminent strategist. The Washington Post called this "Perhaps the best judicial biography ever written.".
- Contents:
- Bill's son
- Lawyer
- Ascending the bench
- Ike's mistake
- Joining the court
- Cold War
- Irish or Harvard
- Triumphant
- Disarming the South
- Crime & criticism
- Angering the left
- Passages
- Tumult
- New challenges
- Frustration rising
- Pedestals & cages
- Death & dignity
- Unexpected ally
- Darkest years
- Rebirth
- Twilight
- "So long, Bill".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7006-2367-1
- OCLC:
- 954028625
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