Hugo Black: A Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679431802 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 741 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Newman gives us a fascinating portrait of Black -- the captivating charmer with the steel backbone and stronger will, and the self-taught, scholarly, cracker populist who termed himself "a rather backward country fellow."More than a decade in the making, drawing upon an astonishing array of sources, including Black's family papers, to which Newman had exclusive access, and more than one thousand interviews, this moving, instructive biography is written with grace, sweep, and verve. A book to stand beside Beveridge's classic life of John Marshall and Catherine Drinker Bowen's popular Yankee from Olympus, Hugo Black is the extraordinary story of a man who bestrode his era like a colossus.. Roger Newman reveals much we did not know -- about Black's activities in the Ku Klux Klan and the furor over his appointment by FDR to the Supreme Court. It began in 1886 in the Alabama hill country and ended in 1971, when Americans were demonstrating in the streets. Never before has the story been so richly told. Brennan, Jr. He takes us behind the scenes at the Court and into its secret conferences, showing us the preparation of opinions and explaining the relationships among the justices.Black is seen as he was -- a brilliant trial lawyer, the investigating senator called by one reporter "a walking encyclopedia with a Southern accent," and the wily politician and astute justice who led the redirection of American law toward the protectio
T. P Roberts said This should be your first book about the Supreme Court. I had a great Constitutional law professor while I was in law school. He had all these stories of the Supreme Court behind the scenes, and it brought the law to life. So I started to look around for Supreme Court biographies. About 6 years later, I'm still reading them. This is the best I have come across. Love him or hate him, Hugo Black is one of the 10 most important Justices in history, most wo. Excellent book arrived in great shape littleboots Excellent book arrived in great shape. A must read for anyone concerned with civil liberties and how the justice system works.. "From KKK member to the Supreme Court: A fascinating story" according to Jeffrey Tidwell. What more can you say to attract a reader than this book is the story of a southern lawyer who begins as a member of the Ku Klax Klan in Alabama and ends his career as one of the most respected members of the United States Supreme Court. WOW! The truth IS stranger than fiction.This book was written by one of Justice Black's former law clerks on the Court. It is well-written and gives great insight
. Senate in 1926. In 1963, he wrote the landmark right-to-counsel Gideon opinion, but, as the Warren Court continued its revolution, Black's "reformist zeal had sharply abated." Though Newman clearly admires his subject and effectively limns Black's private life, he also tracks the justice's evasions regarding his membership in the Ku Klux Klan as a young man, notes the senator's "excess zeal" as an investigator and scores his illiberal opinion regarding the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans. Newman, a former research scholar at New York University School of Law, recreates Black's youth in isolated Clay County, Ala., his move i