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Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a highly anticipated biography of the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan.  I'll link to several book reviews, and I'm expecting to see even more. Tomorrow evening, Politics & Prose book store in Washington, DC, hosts an event with the books authors, Seth Stern & Stephen Wermiel.  Details here.  In the event, you're 1200 miles southwest of the bookstore -- or anyplace else in the country for that matter -- P&P will be happy to send you an inscribed copy. Chuck Leddy writes this book review in the Christian Science Monitor. Authors Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel are both legal scholars and journalists who have a deep understanding of how the Supreme Court works. Wermiel actually interviewed Brennan dozens of times before the ?liberal champion? died in 1997; Wermiel was also given access to Brennan?s files and notes, allowing the authors a true ?behind the scenes? look at some of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the last half century...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).