Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. 603, illus., notes, selected bibliography, index, black mark on top edge, slight sticker residue on DJ. A biography of Chief Justice Earl Warren, who oversaw the Supreme Court during some of the most turbulent years of its history, and who was instrumental in handing down landmark decisions in such cases as Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education and Gideon v. Wainwright. Earl Warren is rightly remembered not only as one of the great chief justices of the Supreme Court, but as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. Warren Court decisions such as Miranda, and Baker v. Carr have vastly expanded civil rights and personal liberties. Condition: very good, very good.
Keywords: Hugo Black, Supreme Court, Chief Justice, William Brennan, Arthur Goldberg, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, John Harlan, Earl Warren
ISBN: 0684808528
[Book #42997]
Price: $30.00