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Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion (2010)

by Seth Stern(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0547149255 (ISBN13: 9780547149257)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: quite an interesting read. especially if you aren't as familiar with the supreme court justices as you perhaps ought to be. justice brennan was one of those truly rare and wonderful men who was not afraid of his own humanity and really believed in making the world a better place to live in...for ALL of us. made me realize that i'm far too cynical about things that i know far too little about. and that's a good thing (the realization, that is). this book helped me to regain a little of my sense of faith in humanity and in the potential for positive change still resting in this nation. oh, and it isn't nearly as dry as the biography of a supreme court justice status suggests it might be, far from it.
review 2: This took me much longer to read than I expected, but... more not because it wasn't interesting. I thought the authors offered a fair view of Brennan, and accurately reflected the arc of his career (outsized influence under Warren, more influential than expected under Burger and Rehnquist, and prone to very bitter dissents as he saw the legacy he build being chipped away). The personal information is interesting, too, and germaine. And not really gossip. I thought the narratives of his experiences with clerks, particularly women clerks, was really interesting stuff. A great book for Court junkies, a very good book for people interested in American political institutions more generally. less

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