Five Chiefs - A Supreme Court Memoir (Hardcover)

When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010)--only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time.
In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices--Fred Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and John Roberts--that he interacted with. He reminisces of being a law clerk during Vinson's tenure; a practicing lawyer for Warren; a circuit judge and junior justice for Burger; a contemporary colleague of Rehnquist; and a colleague of current Chief Justice John Roberts. Along the way, he will discuss his views of some the most significant cases that have been decided by the Court from Vinson, who became Chief Justice in 1946 when Truman was President, to Roberts, who became Chief Justice in 2005.
Packed with interesting anecdotes and stories about the Court, Five Chiefs is an unprecedented and historically significant look at the highest court in the United States.

General

Imprint:	Little, Brown
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	October 2011
Authors:	John Paul Stevens
Dimensions:	216 x 148 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-0-316-19980-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-316-19980-X
Barcode:	9780316199803

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