Preface
Acknowledgments
1: New England Yankee
2: New Hampshire Judge
3: "Stealth Candidate"
4: Common Law Justice
5: Constitutional Nationalist
6: Traditional Republican
Epilogue
Bibliographical Note
Notes
Index
Tinsley E. Yarbrough is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor,
Department of Political Science, East Carolina University. His
books include The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution, Judicial
Enigma: The First Justice Harlan, John Marshall Harlan: Great
Dissenter of the Warren Court, and Judge Frank Johnson and Human
Rights in Alabama, for which he won an ABA Silver Gavel Award. He
lives in Greenville, North
Carolina.
"A detailed and sympathetic portrait of the justice, and its
account of Souter's confirmation is particularly salient at the
moment."--Emily Bazelon, Washington Post Bookworld
"... helps readers understand how it [the Supreme Court] addresses
hot-button social issues. His book is illuminating for anyone
wishing to follow current Supreme Court confirmation
issues."--Library Journal
"Incisive, judicious... gets to the core of Souter--and of today's
political climate.... At a time when the Supreme Court is once
again being remade, this biography opens up the world of one of the
court's most intriguing members."--Publishers Weekly
"Tinsley Yarbrough provides a marvelous portrait of David Souter
both as a jurist and as a man, and explains why his traditional New
England conservatism has made him a key member of the centrist
coalition that has dominated the Supreme Court for over a decade.
And, sadly, he also makes clear why the ultra-conservative wing of
the Republican Party will never, if it can help it, allow another
such open-minded person on the nation's highest court."--Melvin
I.
Urofsky, Professor of History and Public Policy, Virginia
Commonwealth University
"[Yarbrough] skillfully blends Souter's personal and professional
life in an amalgam that is both enlightening and
entertaining....Highly recommended."--CHOICE
"Yarbrough has written a masterful, very human, portrait of
America's 105th Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, David Hackett
Souter. As with Yarbrough's other biographies of American jurists,
he, seemingly effortlessly, captures the essential qualities of
Souter's personality, jurisprudence, and his work on the Court and
presents these insights in beautifully written yet thoroughly
scholarly prose. After reading this book, one "knows" Justice
Souter,"Hackett,"
the way one "knows" a very close friend."--Howard Ball, author of
Murder in Mississippi
"Tinsley Yarbrough, the most prolific living biographer of Supreme
Court justices, has done it again. This time he has given us a
readable, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book about
David H. Souter, a traditional Republican who has forthrightly
supported liberal positions on civil liberties and abortion. Today,
Yarbrough cogently explains, Souter would never be appointed by
George W. Bush, the son of the president that did appoint him.
Yarbrough
mixes personal history with a careful understanding of the case
law, the other justices, and the larger political climate to
produce a compelling study in both judicial style and
courage."--Kermit L.
Hall, President and Professor of History, State University of New
York at Albany
"Conservatives view the first President Bush's appointment of David
H. Souter as a huge miscalculation, and the results seem to bear
them out. Souter has voted with the liberals on abortion,
separation of church and state, federal legislative power, and Bush
v. Gore. In this penetrating analysis, Tinsley E. Yarbrough
attributes Justice Souter's decisions to an unwilligness to uproot
precedent and a respect for "our settled law." Yarbrough
persuasively depicts Souter as an exemplar of the common-law
tradition and places him squarely in the mold of Yarbrough's
previous subject, the second Justice Harlan."--John Jeffries, Dean,
University of Virginia School
of Law
"[Yarbrough] skillfully blends Souter's personal and professional
life in an amalgam that is both enlightening and
entertaining....Highly recommended."--CHOICE
"A detailed and sympathetic portrait of the justice, and its
account of Souter's confirmation is particularly salient at the
moment."--Emily Bazelon, Washington Post Bookworld
"... helps readers understand how it [the Supreme Court] addresses
hot-button social issues. His book is illuminating for anyone
wishing to follow current Supreme Court confirmation
issues."--Library Journal
"Incisive, judicious... gets to the core of Souter--and of today's
political climate.... At a time when the Supreme Court is once
again being remade, this biography opens up the world of one of the
court's most intriguing members."--Publishers Weekly
"Yarbrough's biography is likely to be the definitive work on
Souter for the foreseeable future....Students of the Supreme Court
are fortunate to have such a thorough and balanced portrait of an
otherwise largely elusive justice."--Law and Politics Book
Review
"Tinsley Yarbrough provides a marvelous portrait of David Souter
both as a jurist and as a man, and explains why his traditional New
England conservatism has made him a key member of the centrist
coalition that has dominated the Supreme Court for over a decade.
And, sadly, he also makes clear why the ultra-conservative wing of
the Republican Party will never, if it can help it, allow another
such open-minded person on the nation's highest court."--Melvin
I.
Urofsky, Professor of History and Public Policy, Virginia
Commonwealth University
"Yarbrough has written a masterful, very human, portrait of
America's 105th Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, David Hackett
Souter. As with Yarbrough's other biographies of American jurists,
he, seemingly effortlessly, captures the essential qualities of
Souter's personality, jurisprudence, and his work on the Court and
presents these insights in beautifully written yet thoroughly
scholarly prose. After reading this book, one "knows" Justice
Souter,"Hackett,"
the way one "knows" a very close friend."--Howard Ball, author of
Murder in Mississippi
"Tinsley Yarbrough, the most prolific living biographer of Supreme
Court justices, has done it again. This time he has given us a
readable, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book about
David H. Souter, a traditional Republican who has forthrightly
supported liberal positions on civil liberties and abortion. Today,
Yarbrough cogently explains, Souter would never be appointed by
George W. Bush, the son of the president that did appoint him.
Yarbrough
mixes personal history with a careful understanding of the case
law, the other justices, and the larger political climate to
produce a compelling study in both judicial style and
courage."--Kermit L.
Hall, President and Professor of History, State University of New
York at Albany
"Conservatives view the first President Bush's appointment of David
H. Souter as a huge miscalculation, and the results seem to bear
them out. Souter has voted with the liberals on abortion,
separation of church and state, federal legislative power, and Bush
v. Gore. In this penetrating analysis, Tinsley E. Yarbrough
attributes Justice Souter's decisions to an unwilligness to uproot
precedent and a respect for "our settled law." Yarbrough
persuasively depicts Souter as an exemplar of the common-law
tradition and places him squarely in the mold of Yarbrough's
previous subject, the second Justice Harlan."--John Jeffries, Dean,
University of Virginia School
of Law
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