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 ...
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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.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. vii, 292 p. : ill.; 22 cm. LCCN 2011934111 Type of material Book Personal name Stevens, John Paul, 1920-2019. Main title Five chiefs: a Supreme Court memoir / John Paul Stevens. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created New York: Little, Brown, 2011. Description vii, 292 p. : ill.; 22 cm. ISBN 9780316199803 LC classification KF8745. S78 A3 2011 Contents The first twelve chiefs--Chief Justice of the United States--Fred Vinson--Earl Warren--Warren Burger--William Rehnquist--John Roberts Jr. --Second among equals. LC Subjects Stevens, John Paul, 1920-2019. United States. Supreme Court--Biography. United States. Supreme Court--History. Judges--United States--Biography. Notes Includes index. Geographic area code n-us---