Autorentext

G. Edward White is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of twenty books and numerous articles on law and legal history, including the three-volume Law in American History and Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sage of the Supreme Court.

Klappentext

The first biography in decades of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence: a small-time lawyer--with one year of law school--who joined FDR's administration and became, in rapid succession, U.S. Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Supreme Court Justice. Robert H. Jackson's most enduring legacy, however, may have been his work as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial. Distinguished historian G. Edward White offers a compelling portrait of a complex figure who continues to inspire reverence.

Inhalt

• Preface

• Introduction

• Part One: From Jamestown to the Supreme Court, 1892--1941

• 1. Launching Himself
• 2. Family Matters
• 3. Going to Washington
• 4. Solicitor General and Attorney General

• Part Two: To the Supreme Court and Nuremberg and Back, 1941--1954

• 5. The Supreme Court, 1941--1944
• 6. The Supreme Court, 1945
• 7. Nuremberg: Preparation
• 8. Nuremberg: The Trial
• 9. The Supreme Court, 1946--1952: First Amendment Cases
• 10. The Supreme Court, 1946--1952: Foreign Relations Cases
• 11. The Supreme Court, 1953 and 1954

• Part Three: Assessments

• 12. The Writer
• 13. Summing Up

• Index