Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. : A Biography. This item is unavailable.Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. : A Biography

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.

"...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