Justice Lewis F. Powell:
A Biography
Fordham University Press
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Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. is an absorbing and readable biography of one of the most important Supreme Court Justices since World War II.
“. . . one of the finest judicial biographies ever written.”---—The New York Times Book Review
“More than a model biography; it is an absorbing work of legal history with the character of a man at its center. . . a model of incisive storytelling in a field that can be as dry as a bone. . . . a splendid book indeed, as finely textured and balanced as its subject.”---—The Washington Post Book World
John C. Jeffries, Jr., graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and first in his class from the University of Virginia School of Law.