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Five Chiefs
Justice John Paul Stevens
其他書名
A Supreme Court Memoir
出版
Hachette UK
, 2011-10-03
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography / Lawyers & Judges
Biography & Autobiography / Political
ISBN
0316199788
9780316199780
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KaM4AQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.