Of the overall generalization, Bruce Allen Murphy’s biography of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is a telling case in point. By any measure, Douglas’s life is a worthy topic. He was only 40 when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1939, after a corruption-busting stint as chairman of the Securities […]
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