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Scorpions

The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

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A group biography of the relationship between FDR and four of his Supreme Court justices, written by legal scholar Noah Feldman.

A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented, tall-tale Westerner who narrowly missed the presidency but expanded individual freedom beyond what anyone before had dreamed.

Four more different men could hardly be imagined. Yet they had certain things in common. Each was a self-made man who came from humble beginnings on the edge of poverty. Each had driving ambition and a will to succeed. Each was, in his own way, a genius.

They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. Scorpians tells the story of these four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself.
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Whether this book is a compilation from others - at least 2 biographies (one on Black the other on Douglass) -, its history is not very interesting at all because you all know it...
Even the "Court Pack", the main point that anyone could expect to find here, is not treated ; just evoked.
So you won't learn anything new.
This is the good point : you won't be lost :)
Concerning the New Deal : very very very but very painfull to read again & again on the subject but with no gain !
Finally, about the "performance" of Cotter Smith : diction very slow & dull ; quite a feat.

Only for the tourist !

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