Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backc…

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