G. Edward White, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, is the author of several works, including The American Judicial Tradition and Tort Law in America.
"White's splendid new biography helps us to understand better
Warren's remarkable career from district attorney of Alameda
County, California, to Chief Justice of the United States....[It]
establishes White as one of our premier legal
historians."--American Bar Foundation Research Journal
"The first significant legal biography of Chief Justice Earl
Warren."--Stanford Law Review
"White's analysis is penetrating, his literary style
engaging."--Political Science Quarterly
"A fascinating book about a towering figure of our time."--Virginia
Quarterly Review
"A serious and fascinating study, relating Warren the man and
Warren the judge, and throwing fresh light on an amazing period in
the Supreme Court's history."--Anthony Lewis, The New York Times
Book Review
"Seems likely to serve for some time as the standard against which
other biographies of the controversial chief justice will be
measured."--American Historical Review
"An excellent introduction to a major figure in twentieth-century
American history...solid, informative, and perceptive."--Journal of
American History
"Mr. White has written an exciting biography of this great man and
provided...a wealth of material for the continuing debate over
Warren's role."--The New Republic
"A first-rate biography."--Journal of Southern History
"The most important book about the law published this year. Both a
fresh exploration of one of the most astonishing political
metamorphoses in American history, and a profound but readable
explanation of some of the main problems of constitutional law and
jurisprudence."--Baltimore Sun
"White has gone beyond the labels and given us the man....[He]
makes a serious and usually successful effort to show us the people
and forces, events, idea, plans and accidents that made Warren what
he became."--Los Angeles Times
"White is remarkably successful....[He] develops a thesis of
Warren's decision-making process with which every future Warren
biographer or Supreme Court historian will have to
cope."--Washington Post Book World
"White's 'interpretive biography' of Earl Warren as Jurist and Man
rather than lengthy life history is particularly well suited to
political science classes and teaches the richness of the American
judicial process in the life of a most interesting Chief
Justice."--Bradley S. Chilton, University of Southern
Mississippi
"[A] valiant biography....Thanks to White's honesty, skill, and
diligence, it is a reliable collection of materials providing an
opportunity to appraise Warren's judicial performance as a whole,
an opportunity that non-specialists rarely have for any member of
the Court."--Yale Law Journal
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