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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465747103321

Autore

White G. Edward

Titolo

Earl Warren, a public life [[electronic resource] /] / G. Edward White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1982

ISBN

0-10-504936-0

1-283-42713-3

9786613427137

0-19-977212-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Disciplina

347.3073534

347.73/2634

Soggetti

Judges - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC OFFICIAL; 1: Preparation; 2: Law Enforcement: The District Attorney; 3: Law Enforcement: The Attorney General; 4: Governing: Officeholding and Policymaking; 5: Governing: National Politics and the Supreme Court Nomination; PART TWO: THE CHIEF JUSTICE: PRESENCE; 6: The Crucible of Brown v. Board of Education; 7: Reacting to Felix Frankfurter; 8: The Warren Commission; PART THREE: THE CHIEF JUSTICE: JURIST; 9: Warren's Theory of Judging; 10: Lessons in Civics; 11: ""A Right to Maintain a Decent Society""

12: Law Enforcement from the Other Side13: Warren the Economic Theorist: Labor and Anti-Trust; PART FOUR: THE LEGACY; 14: The Last Years; 15: From Progressive to Liberal; 16: Ethics and Activism; Appendix: A Bibliography of Warren's Opinions; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This is a major biography of one of America's most influential and respected Supreme Court justices by a leading law scholar. In the late 1970's, Earl Warren's papers were opened and G. Edward White, a former law clerk of Warren, was given complete access to research this book. The result is the first study of the Chief Justice to cover his entire political career and to examine aspects of Warren's character that have



seemed paradoxical. White goes back to Warren's roots in California Progressivism to illuminate his mid-century liberalism and the controversial decisions over which he presided...