An associate justice on the renowned Warren Court whose landmark
ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned racial segregation
in schools and other public facilities, Tom C. Clark was a crusader
for justice throughout his long legal career. Among many tributes
Clark received, Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger opined
that "no man in the past thirty years has contributed more to the
improvement of justice than Tom Clark."
Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark is the first biography of
this important American jurist. Written by his daughter, Mimi Clark
Gronlund, and based on interviews with many of Clark's judicial
associates, friends, and family, as well as archival research, it
offers a well-rounded portrait of a lawyer and judge who dealt with
issues that remain in contention today--civil rights, the rights of
the accused, school prayer, and censorship/pornography, among them.
Gronlund explores the factors in her father's upbringing and
education that helped form his judicial philosophy, then describes
how that philosophy shaped his decisions on key issues and cases,
including the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II,
the investigation of war fraud, the Truman administration's loyalty
program (an anti-communist effort), the Brown decision, Mapp v.
Ohio (protections against unreasonable search and seizure), and
Abington v. Schempp (which overturned a state law that required
reading from the Bible each day in public schools).
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