Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General - Hardcover

Bork, Robert H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594036810 ISBN 13: 9781594036811

Publisher: Encounter Books, 2013

Synopsis

In June 1973, Judge Robert Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted in the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward collapse. From the ousting of Vice President Spiro Agnew to the discharge of the Watergate special prosecutor, an event known as the Saturday Night Massacre, Saving Justice offers a firsthand, insider account of the whirlwind of events that engulfed the administration during the last half of 1973 and the first few months of 1974. This important volume provides a revelatory look into the inner workings of the Justice Department during some of the most consequential months of the Nixon administration.

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In June 1973, Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted into the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward collapse. From the ousting of Vice President Spiro Agnew to the discharge of the Watergate special prosecutor, the book offers a first-hand, insider account of the whirlwind of events engulfing the Nixon administration.

Review:

Bork deserves to be remembered by a grateful nation for the services he rendered in preventing disarray in the Justice Department at a moment of unprecedented assault on the rule of law, and for facilitating the removal of a president during Washington days that were darker than most people today can imagine. His book confirms the axiom that our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times.”

George Will

Robert Bork was a remarkable American patriot. Absolutely a fascinating book.”

Mark Levin

While certainly Judge Bork’s confirmation struggle was an important political inflection point, what he did for the life of the law in this country and in defense of the Constitution greatly overshadows that one moment.

Leonard A. Leo, Federalist Society

About this edition

• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1594036810
• ISBN 13: 9781594036811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200