Full name: Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren

Author: Ed Cray Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780684808529 9781439154915 0684808528 1439154910

Earl Warren is rightly remembered not only as one of the great chief justices of the Supreme Court, but as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. Warren Court decisions such as Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda, and Baker v. Carr have given us such famous phrases as "separate is not equal, " "read him his rights, " and "one-man-one-vote" - and have vastly expanded civil rights and personal liberties. A generation later the Warren Court's decisions still define American freedoms. Ed Cray recounts this truly American story in the finest and most comprehensive biography of Earl Warren. He has interviewed nearly all of the Chief's law clerks, four of his children, and more than one hundred others, many of whom recall for the first time their years with Warren. He has read thousands of personal letters and official documents deposited in ten libraries across the country, weaving them into a tale of political intrigue, judicial politics, family reminiscences, and a loving marriage. Similar books: General of the Army by Ed Cray Ramblin' Man by Ed Cray Justice for All by Jim Newton Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin I. Urofsky Justice Brennan by Seth Stern Hugo Black by Roger K. Newman Yankee from Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen The Trials of Lenny Bruce by Ronald K. L. Collins The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse Clarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin Nightingales by Gillian Gill The Rockefellers by Peter Collier Harriet Beecher Stowe by Joan D. Hedrick John Marshall by Jean Edward Smith The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi