Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made by Jim Newton
The Law Library has recently purchased the biography, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made by Jim Newton, for the Tower Reading Room collection.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with this collection, the Law Library’s Tower Reading Room (TRR) collection contains books for recreational reading (for the exclusive use of our law students, faculty and staff). Most of the books are of current interest (not necessarily related to the law) that may be difficult to obtain elsewhere on campus because they are so new or in such high demand.
In Justice for All, Jim Newton, a reporter, editor, and bureau chief at the Los Angeles Times for nearly twenty years, “brings readers the first truly complete consideration of Earl Warren, drawing on unparalleled access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren’s life, as well as extensive cooperation from his living children and associates. Newton illuminates both the public and private Warren, the father of six whose own father was murdered, the stoic leader of the Masons who was touched by the difficulties of children, the study yet prickly man.” (book jacket)
If you are interested in reading this book, it is now on the shelf in the TRR.
By the way, we also welcome suggestions for additions to this collection. For information on how to submit a request and for a complete list of TRR titles, please see the Specialized Collection page on the Law School’s Intranet (Lawnet log in required) at http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1397.
For links to book reviews, click below.
The following links will take you to the full-text book reviews in the Los Angeles Times (positive) and Chicago Tribune (mixed/negative). Please note that you will be required to sign on to Lexis first.
Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2006 Sunday Correction Appended, Home Edition, BOOK REVIEW; Features Desk; Part R; Pg. 3, 1322 words, Profile in courage; Justice for All Earl Warren and the Nation He Made Jim Newton Riverhead Books: 614 pp., $32, Karl Fleming, Karl Fleming is the author of "Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir."
Chicago Tribunenbsp;October 8, 2006 Sunday, Chicagoland Final Edition, BOOKS; ZONE C; Pg. 3, 1180 words, Biography overstates its case; Earl Warren's path to the Supreme Court, By Dennis J. Hutchinson