The American Judicial Tradition Profiles of Leading American Judges [Paperback]

Now available in a newly revised and updated second edition, this highly acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to the Burger court.
G. Edward White traces the American judicial tradition through sketches of the careers and contributions of such significant judges as John Marshall, Joseph Story, Roger Taney, Stephen Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Charles Evans Hughes, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Sandra Day O'Connor. This expanded edition contains a new preface, an updated bibliographical note, and two new chapters, one on Justice William O. Douglas and one on the Burger Court.

A rich source of information and ideas....Worthwhile not only because, as history, it provides an excellent introduction to some of the most influential American judges and cases, but also because as theory it, like all good books, provokes as many questions as it resolves. --Administrative LawReview

Praise for the first edition:

Among the important books,The American Judicial Traditiondeserves a prominent place....In an era of growing concern about the 'imperial judiciary,' it merits the serious reader's attention. --Jethro Lieberman,The New York Times Book Review

A scholarly, well-informed, illuminating work that penetrates the mystique of the judicial mantle....White has superbly conveyed the morality of one of our most sacred institutions. --Trial Magazine

White's tracing of the varieties of American judicial experience is a dazzling performance, one of the more illuminating essays in American political history that I have read. --Louis S. Auchincloss

The single most helpful study of the American judiciary, and a brilliant essay on one of the most crucial institutions of our first 200 years. --Stanley Katz

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