Earl Warren : a Public Life.

By:

White, G. Edward

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1982.Description: 1 online resource (444 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199772124
0199772126
1283427133
9781283427135
0199923329
9780199923328
0105049360
9780105049364
9786613427137
6613427136

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Earl Warren : A Public Life.DDC classification:

347.3073534 347.73/2634

LOC classification:

KF8745.W3 W45 1982

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Contents:

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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Summary: 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 1970s, 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 i.

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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 1970s, 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 i.