About the Author

Norman I. Silber is Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law. He is the author of Test and Protest: The Influence of Consumers Union and A Corporate Form of Freedom: The Emergence of the Nonprofit Sector. Philip Elman was responsible, in the Solicitor General's Office of the Department of Justice, for reviewing hundreds of cases involving civil rights, civil liberties and economic justice-including the epic case of Brown v. Board of Education.

Reviews

"With All Deliberate Speed provides an insider's rich account, spanning over thirty years, of the inner workings of the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General's Office and the Federal Trade Commission that anyone seriously interested in a frank behind-the-scenes view of the federal government should find exceptionally provocative and intriguing."
--Drew Days III, Yale University, U.S. Solicitor General, 1993-96
--Drew Days III, Yale University

"One of the best American stories I have ever read."
--Roger Wilkins
--Roger Wilkins "George Mason University" (2/19/2004 12:00:00 AM)

". . . a provocative, behind-the-scenes story."
--Legal Times
-- "Legal Times" (6/2/2004 12:00:00 AM)

". . . gives the reader fascinating insights into the Roosevelt era, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department. Three cheers!"
---Anthony Lewis

"With All Deliberate Speed is just wonderful. It gives the reader fascinating insights into the Roosevelt era, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department. It is funny, and endearingly human. Three cheers!"
--Anthony Lewis
--Anthony Lewis (1/15/2004 12:00:00 AM)

"[An] engrossing book. . . . Silber has adapted the transcripts of a series of interviews he conducted for the Columbia Oral History Project in the early 1980s into a seamless memoir written in Elman's voice."
--FindLaw.com
-- "FindLaw.com" (6/2/2004 12:00:00 AM)

"Elman provides a behind-the-scenes view of government and shares his keen insights into the justices of the Supreme Court. Sibler, in turn, provides an informative commentary at the end of each chapter, annotating cases and identifying individuals, thus expanding on Elman's words. The reader who is unfamiliar with Philip Elman or the law need not fear that this book will be beyond his reach. . . . This is a book for those interested in law, social policy, government and achievement, but it is also about a thinking individual's life. It is worth reading."
--Jewish Book World
-- "Jewish Book World" (11/30/2004 12:00:00 AM)

"The fascinating, eloquent and skillfully edited oral memoir of a distinguished public servant, who was at the epicenter of major legal controversies that his memoir illuminates. A major contribution to modern American legal history."
--Richard A. Posner
--Richard A. Posner