Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr - Hardcover

Jeffries Jr., John C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684194503 ISBN 13: 9780684194509

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1994

Synopsis

Drawing on interviews and thousands of pages of court documents and notes, the author examines the life of the highly influential judge and frames the major issues of his career.

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Review:

"...one of the finest judicial biographies ever written...." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. is more than a model biography; it is an absorbing work of legal history with the character of a man at its center.... Jeffries's book is a model of incisive storytelling in a field that can be as dry as a bone....a splendid book indeed, as finely textured and balanced as its subject." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "A superb, fascinating biography. John Jeffries gives us a finely nuanced portrait of the widely admired Justice who most often cast the decisive vote in the leading rulings of the Burger Court, as well as a vivid, sensitive picture of the gentle, thoughtful human being who wore the robe." GERALD GUNTHER, WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL PROFESSOR OF LAW. STANFORD LAW SCHOOL

About the Author:

JOHN C. JEFFRIES, JR., graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and first in his class from the University of Virginia School of Law He clerked for justice Powell at the Supreme Court, and is now the Emerson Spies Professor and the Florace W. Goldsmith Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0684194503
• ISBN 13: 9780684194509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 690