The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226448622 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pederson, Louisiana State Univ., ShreveportCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. One of the so-called Four Horsemen, conservative judicial activists who did their best to overturn New Deal legislation, McReynolds and his fellow dissenters provoked Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Supreme Court packing plan," which attempted to fill the court with supporters. Ironically, the plan had been proposed previously by McReynolds during the Wilson administration. From Library Journal James C. of Chicago; The Man Who Was Whizzer White) and Garrow (Emory Univ.; Bearing the Cross) deserve credit for bringing this personal memoir to publication. McReynolds, who served on the Supreme Court from 1914 to 1941, was one of the worst of the more than 100 justices who have presided from America's highest bench, and Knox (1907-97) had the misfortune of clerking for him. McReynolds was a blatant bigot whom William Howard
At the same time, it marvelously portrays a Washington culture now long gone. But he soon develops close relationships with the justice's two black servants: Harry Parker, the messenger who does "everything but breathe" for the justice, and Mary Diggs, the maid and cook. Knox's memoir instead emerges as a record of one of the most fascinating periods in American history.The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox—edited by Dennis J. McReynolds—arguably one of the most disagreeable justices to sit on the Supreme Court—during the tumultuous year when President Franklin D. Hutchinson and David J. Knox, the epitome of the overzealous and officious young man, after landing what he believes to be a dream position, continually fears for his job under the notoriously rude (and nakedly racist) justi
A Customer said The more things change. From the dying days of Russia's Tsarist courts in which the young Kafka sharpened his perception of the absurd, here, similarly is the prophetic voice of a clerk in the blossoming federal judiciary.Watch carefully over the next decade or so for a similar glimpse be. Flowed Like a Novel! Jules7 This was such an intriguing book. It was a page turner like say a Grisham novel. An inside look at what it was like to work day after day with America's most disagreeable SC Justice. Knox wrote respectfully of all the Justices he met. Most remarkably, he wrote resp. "Great on content, just a little dry" according to A Customer. If you're the ultimate policy wonk on 2nd Amendment law, you'll want to read this book just for John Knox's insights into the character of Justice McReynolds who wrote the decision in U.S. v. Miller, 19Great on content, just a little dry If you're the ultimate policy wonk on 2nd Amendment law, you'll want to read this book just for John Knox's insights into the character of Justice McReynolds who wrote the decision in U.S. v. Miller, 1939. Unfortunately, Knox was no longer clerking for McReynolds i. 9. Unfortunately, Knox was no longer clerking for McReynolds i