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

from DeaconBernie

It is challenging to attempt a review of this book. Not all of us have the legal background of the author to follow his assessments of how each of the four Justices reached their positions. Taking Feldman at his word, one is hugely encouraged by the brilliance of the four Justices and desperately...

from Melkor81205

When I first received this book, I was a little intimidated by the subject matter:Supreme Court Justices. I had very little knowledge of the subject and felt the book would be a bit beyond my grasp. You could look up any of the Justices or this subject matter in any college book and be bored to t...

from pnorman4345

This book has three aspects: it gives the history of why the country needed the government and in particular the courts to engage actively in creating a world of justice, both economic and otherwise. it analyzes the key cases of the supreme court from the mid thirties until the 60's, giving the r...

from kbondelli

In Scorpions, Noah Feldman weaves the the threads of the lives and work of President Roosevelt's four most prolific Supreme Court Justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson. With a behind-the-scenes feel reminiscent of Bob Woodward's The Brethren, Feldman show...

from Chris469

An outstanding history of the US Supreme Court and Constitutional interpretation from the 1920s (the Lochner case) through the early 1960s (Baker v Carr, Griswold v Connecticut) by way of a biographical focus on four of Pres Franklin Roosevelt's appointees: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Robert J...