Bruce Allen Murphy is the Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he teaches American constitutional law and civil rights and liberties, American politics, and biographical writing. He is the author of Scalia; The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices; Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice; and Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas. Murphy lives with his wife in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
"In the long run, will Justice Scalia's legacy be that of a solo
pilot as the title of this book suggests? Or will it be that of a
jurist who reinvigorated an interpretive idea that launched a
thousand jurisprudential ships? Will his unwillingness to build
consensus at the expense of his orthodoxy be judged as an
egotistical mistake or a principled advantage?. . . . Scalia
provides a rich and needed body of information by which to begin to
answer such questions."--Ronald K.L. Collins "The Washington
Independent Review of Books "
"May be the most exhaustive treatment of a sitting justice ever
written. . . . Scalia is a skeptical, often critical look at its
subject, but free of snark; it does its readers the service of
taking Scalia's ideas seriously."--Jeff Shesol "The New York Times
Book Review "
"Murphy gives Scalia's intellect and influence its due. . . . What
is strong in Scalia -- and what probably irks so many fans of
Scalia -- is that Murphy does a good job poking holes in Scalia's
strict textual interpretation of the Constitution."--Tom Deignan
"Newark Star-Ledger "
"Endlessly fascinating . . . Scalia offers a deep examination of
the man and his work, one certain to ignite the passions of
partisans in our increasingly polarized nation."--Jay Strafford
"Richmond Times-Dispatch "
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