The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox
A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington
My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to surpass Pepys as a diarist.When John Frush Knox (1907-1997) wrote these words, he was in the middle of law school, and his attempt at surpassing Pepys--part scrapbook, part social commentary, and part recollection--had already reached 750 pages. His efforts as a chronicler might have landed in a family attic had he not secured an eminent position after graduation as law clerk to Justice James C. McReynolds-arguably one of the most disagreeable justices to sit on the Supreme Court-during the tumultuous year when Preside…
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Weitere Autoren: Hutchinson, Dennis J. (Hrsg.) / Garrow, David J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-226-44863-3
- EAN: 9780226448633
- Produktnummer: 9110111
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.1 cm 498 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 498
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Dennis J. Hutchinson is the William Rainey Harper Professor in the College and senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White, a New York Times Notable Book. Davud J. Garrow is the Presidential Distinguished Professor at the Emory University School of Law and the author of several books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bearing the Cross.
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