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The Antagonists : Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and civil liberties in modern America by James F. Simon
Call Number: KF8744 .S563 1989
ISBN: 0671477978
Publication Date: 1989-10-01
This biography looks at the rivalry between Huge Lafayette Black and Felix Frankfurter by analyzing their different backgrounds and experiences.
Constitutional Faiths : Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, and the process of judicial decision making by Mark Silverstein
Call Number: KF 8744 .S56 1984
ISBN: 0801416507
Publication Date: 1984-06-21
A look at judicial decision making through the lives of Justices Hugo L. Black and Felix Frankfurter.
Division and Discord : the Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941-1953 by Melvin I. Urofsky
Call Number: KF8742 .U76 1997
ISBN: 1570031207
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
This work looks at the landmark decisions made during the Stone and Vinson courts between 1941-1953.
Five Jewish Lawyers of the Common Law by Arthur L. Goodhart
Call Number: KF353 .G65
ISBN: 083698059X
Publication Date: 1977-06-01
This work discusses the lives and influence of five prominent Jewish lawyers. Two of whom were Supreme Court Justices Benjamin N. Cardozo and Louis D. Brandeis as well as three other prominent lawyers, J.P. Benjamin, Sir George Jessel, and Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading.
Justices Black and Frankfurter : conflict in the Court by Wallace Mendelson
Call Number: KF8744 .M4
Publication Date: 1961
This biography looks at the relationship between Hugo Lafayette Black and Felix Frankfurter while they served on the United States Supreme Court together.
New Deal Justice : the constitutional jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson by Jeffrey D. Hockett
Call Number: KF8744 .H63 1996
ISBN: 0847682102
Publication Date: 1996-06-04
This work draws extensively upon the memoirs, writings, opinions, and personal papers of Justices Black, Frankfurter and Jackson and employs the insights of recent works on American legal, social, and political theory to change the way scholars have looked at the shaping of the New Deal and the decision making of these Justices.
Of Power and Right : Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's constitutional revolution by Howard Ball; Phillip J. Cooper
Call Number: KF8744 .B275 1992
ISBN: 0195046129
Publication Date: 1992-01-30
A look at the thirty-year personal and professional relationship between Justices Hugo L. Black and William O. Douglas and how their unique backgrounds shaped their judicial decisions.
Scorpions : the battles and triumphs of FDR's great Supreme Court justices by Noah Feldman
Call Number: KF8744 .F45 2010
ISBN: 9780446580571
Publication Date: 2010-11-08
This work looks at the relationships of four of the Supreme Court Justices with each other and Franklin Delano Roosevelt through the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War. It includes information on Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, Robert H. Jackson, and William O. Douglas.
The Stone Court by Peter G. Renstrom
Call Number: KF8742 .R48 2001
ISBN: 1576071537
Publication Date: 2001-03-06
Looks at the lives, careers and decisions made by the Justices who made up the Stone Court from 1941-1946.

Owen J. Roberts

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

May 20, 1930 - July 31, 1945

Search for a Judicial Philosophy ; Mr. Justice Roberts and the constitutional revolution of 1937 by Charles A. Leonard
Call Number: KF8745.R6 L46
ISBN: 080469009X
Publication Date: 1971-04-01
A look at the life and career of Justice Owen J. Roberts.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

March 2, 1932 - July 9, 1938

Benjamin N. Cardozo, American judge by George Sydney Hellman
Call Number: KF8745.C3 H45 1969
Publication Date: 1969
A look at the life and career of Justice Cardozo.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, a memorial by Irving Lehman
Call Number: KF8745.C3 L43 1938a
Publication Date: 1938
This was an address concerning the life and career of Benjamin N. Cardozo given to the American Bar Association on July 7, 1938 following his death. Available on microfiche.
Cardozo by Andrew L. Kaufman
Call Number: KF8745.C3 K38 1998
ISBN: 0674096452
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
This first complete biography looks at the events in Justice Cardozo's life that shaped his career as a Supreme Court Justice -- namely his strong ties to the Jewish community and the impact of his father's scandalous career.
Cardozo : a study in reputation by Richard A. Posner
Call Number: KF8745.C3 P64 1990
ISBN: 0226675556
Publication Date: 1990-10-15
This work looks at the career of Benjamin Cardozo as a study in reputation and how that influenced his life. It also analyzes the intellectual process and rhetorical methods that Justice Cardozo used in creating some of the most renowned and cited decisions in American law.
Law is justice : notable opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo by A.L. Sainer
Call Number: KF8745.C3 C3 1938a
Publication Date: 1938
A look at the personal opinions of Justice Cardozo and how that shaped his career. Available on microfiche.
Mr Justice Cardozo ; a liberal mind in action by Joseph P. Pollard
Call Number: KF8745.C3 P65 1935
ISBN: 0837128153
Publication Date: 1970-03-30
A look at the intellectual process that shaped Justice Cardozo's career.
The World of Benjamin Cardozo : personal values and the judicial process by Richard Polenberg
Call Number: KF8745.C3 P59 1997
ISBN: 0674960513
Publication Date: 1997-10-15
This work looks at the personal life and values of Benjamin Cardozo and how it influences his career as a Supreme Court Justice.

Hugo Lafayette Black

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

August 19, 1937 - September 17, 1971

Hugo Black : A biography by Roger K. Newman
Call Number: KF8745.B55 N49 1994
ISBN: 0679431802
Publication Date: 1994-10-11
A biography of Hugo Lafayette Black's life and career which describes how Justice Black was a champion of all people.
Hugo Black; the Alabama years by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
Call Number: KF8745.B55 H34 1972
ISBN: 0807100447
Publication Date: 1972-01-01
A critical look at the early years of Hugo Lafayette Black's career in Alabama.
Hugo Black and the judicial revolution by Gerald T. Dunne
Call Number: KF8745.B55 D86
ISBN: 0671223410
Publication Date: 1977-03-15
This biography looks at the life and career of Justice Black as well as an analysis of how Black came to develop his theory of Constitutional interpretation and theories surrounding why near the end of his life Black grew more conservative.
Hugo L. Black : cold steel warrior by Howard Ball
Call Number: 0195078144
ISBN: 0195078144
Publication Date: 1996-09-12
Using Justice Black's files at the Library of Congress and interviews with his family and collogues, this biography looks at the career of a man who became one of the twentieth century's greatest defenders of individual freedoms and liberty.
Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalism by Tony A. Freyer
Call Number: KF8745.B55 F74 2008
ISBN: 9780205590780
Publication Date: 2007-10-24
This biographical work looks at the life and work of Hugo Lafayette Black from his beginnings in rural Alabama to his career in the Supreme Court through the historical themes of industrialism, immigration and imperialism.
Inside Justice Hugo L. Black : the letters by John Paul Frank
Call Number: KF8745.B55 A44 2000
ISBN: 0935630546
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
A look at the life of Hugo Lafayette Black through his personal letters.
Justice Hugo Black and Modern America by Tony Freyer (Editor)
Call Number: KF8745.B55 J87 1990
ISBN: 0817304673
Publication Date: 1990-04-01
This is a compilation of two important biographical works on Justice Black from the Alabama Law Review issues Spring 1985 and Winter 1987.
Justice Hugo Black and the First Amendment : "'no law' means no law" by Everette E. Dennis (Editor); Donald W. Gilmor (Editor); David L. Grey (Editor)
Call Number: KF 4774.A75 J8
ISBN: 0813819059
Publication Date: 1978-09-01
This work looks at the life of Hugo Lafayette Black and his interpretation of the First Amendment.
Mr. Justice and Mrs. Black by Hugo L. Black; Elizabeth Black; William J. Brennan (Foreword by)
Call Number: KF8745.B55 A35 1986
ISBN: 0394544323
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
A series of memoirs from Hugo Black and his wife Elizabeth, look at the life of Justice Black from his childhood in rural Alabama, through a career in law, onto to the Senate and finally the Supreme Court.
Mr. Justice Black, the man and his opinions. by John P. Frank
Call Number: CT6950.B6 F7
Publication Date: 1949
A biography on the life and opinions of Hugo Lafayette Black. Available on microfiche.
Mr. Justice Black and His Books by Daniel J. Meador
ISBN: 0813905621
Publication Date: 1974-02-01
This work inventories and catalogs the books owned by Hugo Lafayette Black and discusses his reading habits and subjects.
Mr. Justice Black and His Critics by Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Call Number: KF 4770 .Y37 1988
ISBN: 0822308665
Publication Date: 1988-12-07
This biography looks at Hugo Lafayette Black's involvement in many landmark decisions and events through his career as a Senator and Supreme Court Justice.
My Father, a remembrance by Hugo L. Black
Call Number: KF8745.B55 B55
ISBN: 0394496310
Publication Date: 1975-08-01
A biography on the life of Hugo Lafayette Black as told by his son, Hugo L. Black Jr.
The Vision and the Dream of Justice Hugo L. Black by Howard Ball
Call Number: KF8745.B55 B3
ISBN: 0817351655
Publication Date: 1975-01-01
A look at Justice Black's life and how it shaped his judicial philosophy.

Stanley Forman Reed

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

January 27, 1938 - February 25, 1957

New Deal Justice : the life of Stanley Reed of Kentucky by John D. Fassett
Call Number: KF8745.R43 F37 1994
ISBN: 0533107075
Publication Date: 1994-05-01
A look at the life and career of Justice Stanley Reed.

Felix Frankfurter

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

January 20, 1939 - August 28, 1962

The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection : the secret political activities of two Supreme Court justices by Bruce Allen Murphy
Call Number: KF8744 .M87
ISBN: 0195031229
Publication Date: 1982-03-25
This biography looks at judicial activism through the lives of Felix Frankfurter and Louis Dembitz Brandeis.
Brandeis and Frankfurter by Leonard Baker
Call Number: KF8744 .B27 1986
ISBN: 0814710867
Publication Date: 1986-06-01
A duel biography on Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter and how they changed the court system and shaped American public policy.
The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter by H. N. Hirsch
Call Number: KF8745 .F73 H57 1981
ISBN: 046501979X
Publication Date: 1981-03-01
A an assessment of Justice Frankfurter's personality and how it shaped 24 years of events in the United States Supreme Court.
Felix Frankfurter by Liva Baker
Call Number: KF 8745 .F73 B34 1969
Publication Date: 1969
A look at the life and career of Felix Frankfurter.
Felix Frankfurter: A tribute by Wallace Mendelson
Call Number: KF 8745 .F73 M45
Publication Date: 1964
An address given by Wallace Mendelson concerning the life and career of Felix Frankfurter for the New York State Bar Association.
Felix Frankfurter : judicial restraint and individual liberties by Melvin I. Urofsky
Call Number: KF8745.F7 U76 1991
ISBN: 080577792X
Publication Date: 1991-08-01
A short biography that looks at the public life of Felix Frankfurter as Washington administrator, politically engaged law professor and Supreme court Justice.
Felix Frankfurter: scholar on the bench by Helen Shirley Thomas
Call Number: KF8745.F73 T49
ISBN: 0801806283
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
A look at the judicial and political philosophy of Justice Frankfurter with a retelling of his life events.
Felix Frankfurter and His Times: the reform years by Michael E. Parrish
Call Number: KF 8745 .F73 P37 1982
ISBN: 0029237408
Publication Date: 1982-05-01
This biography looks at the years before Justice Frankfurter's Supreme Court appointment Explores the years before Frankfurter's Supreme Court appointment including his tenure as a Harvard Law professor and his advisory relationship with Wilson and Roosevelt.
From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter : with a biographical essay and notes by Joseph P. Lash (Editor)
Call Number: KF8745.F73 A38 1975
ISBN: 0393074889
Publication Date: 1975-09-01
A look at the life of Felix Frankfurter through his personal diaries.
Half Brother, Half Son : the letters of Louis D. Brandeis to Felix Frankfurter by Melvin I. Urofsky (Editor); David W. Levy (Editor)
Call Number: KF8745.B67 A44 1991
ISBN: 0806123036
Publication Date: 1991-05-01
A look at the letters and personal friendship between Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter.
Supreme Court justices as politicians : the extrajudicial activities of Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter by Bruce Allen Murphy
Call Number: KF8744 .M872 1978a
Publication Date: 1978
A look at the political lives of Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter.
Two Jewish Justices: outcasts in the promised land  by Robert A. Burt
Call Number: KF8744 .B87 1988
ISBN: 0520067495
Publication Date: 1989-11-06
A look at the lives of two Jewish Supreme Court Justices: Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter.

William Orville Douglas

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

April 15, 1939 – November 12, 1975

The Court years, 1939-1975 : the autobiography of William O. Douglas by William O. Douglas
Call Number: KF8745.D68 A32
ISBN: 0394492404
Publication Date: 1980-09-01
A look at the life and career of William O. Douglas.
Dissent Without Opinion : the behavior of Justice William O. Douglas in Federal tax cases by Bernard Wolfman; Jonathan Silver; Marjorie Silver
Call Number: 0812276825
ISBN: 0812276825
Publication Date: 1975-03-01
A look at the life of William O. Douglas through the lens of his behavior during federal tax cases.
The Douglas Letters : selections from the private papers of Justice William O. Douglas by William O. Douglas; Melvin I. Urofsky (Editor)
Call Number: KF 8745 .D68 A4 1987
ISBN: 0917561465
Publication Date: 1987-10-01
A look at William O. Douglas' private letters to better understand the events during his tenure on the Supreme Court.
The Environmental Justice : William O. Douglas and American conservation by Adam M. Sowards
Call Number: KF8745.D6 S67 2009
ISBN: 9780870715679
Publication Date: 2009-04-01
This work explores how Justice Douglas was inspired by his youthful experiences hiking in the Pacific Northwest and eventually used his influence to contribute to American conservation thought, politics, and law.
Go East, Young Man : the early years; the autobiography of William O. Douglas by W. O. Douglas
Call Number: KF8745.D68 A3
ISBN: 0394488342
Publication Date: 1974-03-12
An autobiography of William O. Douglas in which he recounts his early years.
He Shall Not Pass This Way Again: the legacy of Justice William O. Douglas by Stephen L. Wasby (Editor); Charles A. Reich (Foreword by)
Call Number: KF8745.D68 .H4 1990
ISBN: 0822936445
Publication Date: 1990-12-01
This work looks at four aspects of Justice Douglas' life: his relations with his colleagues; his views on civil liberties, his stance as an environmentalist; and his views as an internationalist.
Independent Journey : the life of William O. Douglas by James F. Simon
Call Number: KF 8745 .D68 .S55
ISBN: 0060140429
Publication Date: 1980-10-01
This biography discusses much of Justice Douglas' early life and the eventual impact that he had on the Supreme Court.
Nature's Justice : writings of William O. Douglas by William O. Douglas; James O'Fallon
Call Number: KF8745.D68 A43 2000
ISBN: 0585464510
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
This work is a compilation of many sources of Justice Douglas' personal writings including excerpts from his autobiography, political writings and opinions which reflect not only his love of justice but also his love of the environment.
Wild Bill : the legend and life of William O. Douglas by Bruce Allen Murphy
Call Number: KF8745.D6 M87 2003
ISBN: 0394576284
Publication Date: 2003-03-04
This biography delves into the personal life of William O. Douglas and separates the wild legends from the even more wild truths of his life.
William O. Douglas : a biography by Edwin P. Hoyt
Call Number: KF8745.D68 H69 1979
ISBN: 0839785984
Publication Date: 1979-11-01
A work on the life and career of William O. Douglas.

Frank Murphy

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

January 18, 1940 - July 19, 1949

Frank Murphy : the New Deal years by Sidney Fine
Call Number: KF8745.M8 F5 1979
ISBN: 0226249344
Publication Date: 1993-11-08
This work looks at Frank Murphy's earlier career, prior to joining the Supreme Court when he was first, governor of the Philippines and next, governor of Michigan.
The high ministry of government: the political career of Frank Murphy by Richard D. Lunt
Call Number: E 748 .M868 L8
Publication Date: 1965
This work looks at the political career of Justice Frank Murphy.
Mr. Justice Murphy; a political biography by J. Woodford Howard, Jr
Call Number: KF8745.M8 H6
Publication Date: 1968
This work looks at the accomplished political career of Justice Frank Murphy.

James F. Byrnes

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

July 8, 1941 - October 3, 1942

Sly and able : a political biography of James F. Byrnes by David Robertson
Call Number: E 748.B975 R63 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Although he had a short career as a Supreme Court Justice, James F. Byrnes had a long and accomplished political career as a Senator, a Governor and head of various government agencies.

Robert Houghwout Jackson

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

July 11, 1941 - October 9, 1954

Mr. Justice Jackson : four lectures in his honor by Charles S. Desmond et. al.
Call Number: KF 8745 .J27 M5 1969
Publication Date: 1969
A compilation of four speeches given to Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation concerning the life and career of Robert H. Jackson.
Proceedings of the bar and officers of the Supreme Court of the United States, April 4, 1955 : proceedings before the Supreme Court of the United States, April 4, 1955 : in memory of Robert Houghwout Jackson by Bar of the Supreme Court
Call Number: KF8745.J27 S9 1955
Publication Date: 1955
An address given to the Supreme Court in honor of the life and career of Robert H. Jackson following his death in 1955.
Robert H. Jackson : country lawyer, Supreme Court justice, America's advocate by Eugene C. Gerhart
Call Number: KF8745.J32 G473 2003
ISBN: 1575887738
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
A look at the life and career of Robert H. Jackson.
Supreme Court Justice Jackson, lawyer's judge by Eugene C. Gerhart
Call Number: KF8745.J32 G47s
Publication Date: 1961
A biography of the life and career of Robert H. Jackson as a "lawyer's judge".

Wiley B. Rutledge

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

February 11, 1943 - September 10, 1949

Justice Rutledge and the bright constellation by Fowler V. Harper
Call Number: KF8745 .R87 H37 1965
Publication Date: 1965
A look at the life and career of Justice Wiley Rutledge.
Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court by John M. Ferren; Wiley Rutledge : the story of Justice Wiley Rutledge
Call Number: KF8745.R87 F47 2004
ISBN: 9780807828663
Publication Date: 2004-09-13
A biography on Justice Rutledge who, although leaning toward racial prejudice in his early life, became one of the Supreme Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of equal rights, free speech and church and state separation.

Harold Hitz Burton

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

September 22, 1945 - October 13, 1958

Proceedings of the bar and officers of the Supreme Court of the United States, May 24, 1965. Proceedings before the Supreme Court of the United States, May 24, 1965. In memory of Harold H. Burton by United States Supreme Court
Call Number: KF 8745 .B87 U5 1965
Publication Date: 1965
An address concerning the life and career of Harold H. Burton given to the Supreme Court following his death in 1965.
Stability, Security and Continuity : Mr. Justice Burton and decision-making in the Supreme Court, 1945-1958 by Mary Frances Berry
Call Number: KF8742 .B47
ISBN: 0837197988
Publication Date: 1978-04-14
A look at the career of Harold H. Burton as a Supreme Court Justice from 1945-1958.