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Murphy, Bruce
Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas
New York Random House 2003 0394576284 / 9780394576282 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
xvii, 716 pp., biblio., index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "William Orville Douglas was both the most accomplished and the most controversial justice ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. He emerged from isolated Yakima, Washington, to be dubbed, by the age of thirty, 'the most outstanding law professor in the nation'; at age thirty-eight, he was the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cleaning up a corrupt Wall Street during the Great Depression; by the age of forty, he was the second youngest Supreme Court justice in American history, going on to serve longer--and to write more opinions and dissents--than any other justice. In evolving from a pro-government advocate in the 1940s to an icon of liberalism in the 1960s, Douglas became a champion for the rights of privacy, free speech, and the environment. While doing so, 'Wild Bill' lived up to his nickname by racking up more marriages, more divorces, and more impeachment attempts aimed against him than any other member of the Court. But it was what Douglas did not accomplish that haunted him: He never fulfilled his mother’s ambition for him to become president of the United States. / Bruce Allen Murphy is the Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is the author of the nationally acclaimed and bestselling The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices (1982) and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice (1988), as well as other books and articles in the field of American government and constitutional law." - Publisher.
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