Full name: Hugo Black: A Biography

Author: Roger K. Newman Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780823217861 0823217868

Hugo Black's odyssey began in 1886 in the Alabama hill country and ended in 1971, when Americans were demonstrating in the streets. As a United States Senator from 1927 to 1937, and then for thirty-four years on the United States Supreme Court as its most passionate civil libertarian, Black fought for the rights and welfare of all people. More than a decade in the making, this moving, instructive biography is written with grace, sweep, and verve. Newman conducted more than one thousand interviews, and has drawn upon an astonishing array of other sources, including Black's family papers, to which he had exclusive access. Hugo Black is the extraordinary story of a man who bestrode his era like a colossus. Similar books: Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin I. Urofsky Honorable Justice by Sheldon M. Novick Chief Justice by Ed Cray Justice Brennan by Seth Stern John Marshall by Jean Edward Smith Clarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone Justice for All by Jim Newton American Original by Joan Biskupic Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray Tony Hancock by John Fisher The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald Dorothy Day by William Miller Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton