Richard Cahan is the author of They All Fall Down (Preservation Press, 1995), a biography of architectural preservationist Richard Nickel, and co-author of The Game That Was (NTC/Contemporary Publishing,1997), a look at a historically significant collection of major league baseball photos and Chicago: Rising from the Prairie (Heritage Media Corporation, 2000). He has worked as a writer, editor and photo director in Chicago since 1975.
Judge Marvin Aspen is the Edward Avery Harriman Adjunct
Professor of Law at the Northwestern University School of Law and a
former chief judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
"A Court That Shaped America is an extraordinary history of an
institution that has reflected the interaction of our justice and
cultural systems. An exciting read, it demolishes the notion that
books about courts tell only the stories of anonymous, black-robed
men and women who hear lawyers drone on." --James R. Thompson,
former governor of Illinois
"Cahan's book is well written and engaging. It gives a human face
to a court that has a big impact on the lives of people in Chicago
and its environs and will, I predict, be fascinating outside as
well as within the legal community." --Judge Richard A. Posner of
the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
"So much of the history of Chicago in the later part of the century
was determined by this court, whether in criminal or civil cases.
It is the throbbing conscience of Chicago." --Scott Turow
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