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Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir (2011)

by John Paul Stevens(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

031619980X (ISBN13: 9780316199803)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: Okay, this book is totally out of my comfort zone and I have had it sitting on my coffee table for weeks with just a furtive glance, but today was the day I decided to skim the hell out of it and get it done. If you are a lover of history and law then this compact book is something you would enjoy. It sums up the people who make up the history of the court- with a chapter on each of the chief justices. Short and sweet with some fun facts mixed in such as how incredibly talented these justices were even back in high school. Examples - Chief Justice Roberts played both offense and defense and was a star on his high school football team and of course graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and another was class president and so on.....
review 2: I really enjoyed ... morereading former Justice Stevens memoir. If you are desiring a gossipy memoir or Stevens incessantly insulting his colleagues, this memoir will disappoint you. Stevens does provide a limited number of insights and perceptions about his former colleagues. I thought his critique of Rehnquist was the most entertaining and amusing. The importance of this book is that Stevens provides insight into many of the Supreme Court's prior rulings. less

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