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Title: The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong ISBN: 0-380-52183-0 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Very Good Read!
Comment: You will never find a book that will give you a better insight into the Supreme Court. This book explains many of the rulings that have come out of the Supreme Court as well. You will also gain better insight into the personalities of some of the Justices of the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is also given excellent coverage as well. The functions of the judicial body as a whole are very well explained by this book. This book could be used to teach a course about the functions of the Supreme Court. Read this book if you can You will gain a better understanding of the Judicial body.
Rating: 5
Summary: The veil is removed
Comment: Few nonfiction books combine intimate details, startling information, and humor as well as this one. In The Brethren, the reader will make discoveries about the Supreme Court that he will never have fathomed: the Justices are fallible; there is bickering, politics, and lobbying when making decisions; they joke about pornography; the clerks have a secret society, etc. It is guaranteed to open the reader's eyes to a world that he never could have imagined existed. And I reccomend the book even to those who have a slight interest in the law. Additionally, there are guaranteed laughs (and I mean HUGE laughs) from both the subtle and not so subtle humor that is sprinkled throughout.
Rating: 4
Summary: Behind-the-scenes look at the Burger Court
Comment: Although "The Brethren" was written a quarter of a century ago and it covers the Supreme Court sessions from 1969 to 1975, there are two reasons to hunt down a used copy of this book and read it today. The first is its examination of the important Court decisions of Warren Burger's early years, all of which still reverberate with their controversy and implications. The second is to learn how, in spite of its famously left-of-center decisions, the Court began taking a sharp turn to the ideological right, spurred by the appointment of Burger and by the ascent of the young William Rehnquist.
"The Brethren" gave the Burger Court a reputation from which it never quite recovered. Although the Supreme Court has historically had its share of in-fighting, incompetence, and inanity, its internal meltdowns in the 1970s were occasionally beyond the pale. Woodward and Armstrong portray Burger as a well-meaning but ultimately misguided man obsessed by the legacy of Earl Warren, concerned far more with image than with principle, unskilled in management techniques that would have helped bring the Court to a consensus, and unashamed of his repeated attempts to assign the Court's decisions in a fashion insured to thwart the will of the majority. Even today, most historians, regardless of ideological bent, view the Burger years as a mediocre and often inconsistent transition between the liberal Warren Court and the conservative Rehnquist Court.
It's not a perfect book, by any means. Woodward and Armstrong are at their page-turning best when they examine in detail some of the more famous decisions and controversies faced by the Court (busing, obscenity, abortion, the death penalty, and--especially--Watergate). And the account is surprisingly balanced: anyone expecting a "liberal" flogging of an increasingly conservative court will be surprised, on the one hand, by the authors' depictions of the increasingly unfit and ornery Douglas and the unsophisticated yet affable Marshall and, on the other hand, by their open admiration of Rehnquist, who comes across as (by far) the most likeable and amiable of the justices. Nevertheless, their account is a bit too heavy on office gossip. True--this journalistic style brings the fourteen justices who served during these years to life, but what's lacking is the necessary detailed legal background that would make sense of the Court's day-to-day work rather than its scandalous backbiting and personality conflicts. Overall, though, it's an admirable piece of journalism that makes the Court seem as human as it really is.
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Title: Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court by Edward Lazarus ISBN: 0140283560 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward ISBN: 0671864866 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Commanders by Bob Woodward ISBN: 0743234758 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Shadow : Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward ISBN: 0684852632 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Nature of the Judicial Process by Benjamin N. Cardozo ISBN: 0300000332 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1985 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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