The Great Justices, 1941-54
Posted by admin on Jun 8, 2006
William Domnarski. The Great Justices, 1941-54: Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. KF8744 .D66 2006
From the publisher: “The Great Justices offers a revealing
glimpse of a judicial universe in which titanic egos often clash, and comes as
close as any book ever has to getting inside the minds of Supreme Court
jurists.” Comparing four brilliant but very different jurists of the Roosevelt-era Court – Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jackson -
William Domnarski paints a startling picture of the often deeply ambiguous
relationship between ideas and reality, between the law and the justices who
interpret and create it. By pulling aside the veil of decorous tradition,
Domnarski brings to light the personalities that shaped one of the greatest
Courts of our time – one whose decisions continue to affect judicial thinking
today.