Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 The Spirit of the West2 A Young Lawyer and the War 3 Small Town Lawyer and Politician 4 An Academic Entrepreneur 5 Legal Realist and Firebrand 6 Trustbuster 7 The Short Unhappy Judgeship of Thurman Arnold 8 A Firm Beginning 9 Building a Washington Law Firm 10 Final Fights Epilogue Appendix A: Cases Decided (Opinion), Concurred, or Dissented by Judge Thurman Arnold Appendix B: Principal Writings of Thurman ArnoldAppendix C: Selected Bibliography of Works about Thurman Arnold and His Times Notes Index About the Author

About the Author

Spencer Weber Waller is professor of law and director, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago.

Reviews

"Soebce Wakker has written a useful biography of Thurman Arnold, collecting in one place the available materials and adding the results of his own research." --The American Journal of Legal History "Antitrust is a dry subject, but fortunately Waller knows it, and so did Arnold. Both have the flair to make it come alive." --Chicago Tribune "The tale is nicely told and brings out the complications of being an aggressive antitrust enforcer in a political administration deeply ambivalent about competition policy." --Antitrust Review "Waller has succeeded in capturing the essence of a lawyer, often described as a blend of Voltaire and a cowboy, who made such important contributions to twentieth century jurisprudence." --The Law and Politics Book Review "Waller's biography captures the energy, creativity, sense of humor and commitment of this original legal scholar and the nation's greatest anti-trust lawyer, who had the guts to battle the McCarthy scourge of the 1950s. Every law student should read this book about a genuine legal hero. It will give them a sense of lawyering as a noble profession." --Joseph A. Califano, Jr., The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University "Everyone who knows of Thurman Arnold understands he was larger than life. But I would not have imagined that anyone could bring him to life. That is what Spencer Waller has done in this absorbing biography." --Laura Kalman, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Abe Fortas: A Biography