TY - JOUR
AU - Spector, Robert M.
AB - Judicial Biography and the United States Supreme Court: A Bibliographical Appraisal by ROBERT M. SPECTOR* N 1937, WEISENBURGER COMMENTED: "It is remarkable that full­ length biographies of Supreme Court justices can be counted upon one's fingers ... " Six years later, Sister Klinkhamer declared that "[B]iographies of members of the Supreme Court have generally been limited to lengthy studies of one or two outstanding, colorful figures, or to slight monographs on their brethren." A generation has passed, but these two comments are as true today as they were then. Full-length biographies of the ninety-five separate justices of the highest United States tribunal have been slow a-horning. Mar­ shall, Taney, White, Taft, Holmes, Stone, and Brandeis have been the main centers of attraction thus far. The need for biography in this field is much too obvious for ela­ boration. Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Dean of the Boston College Law School, stated the point succinctly when he said that the Supreme Court of the United States "is so increasingly important in the life of America and of the world that the life and thought of every [italics my own] justice who serves on that tribunal deserves the most care­ ful investigation 
TI - Judicial Biography and the United States Supreme Court: A Bibliographical Appraisal
JO - American Journal of Legal History
DO - 10.2307/844502
DA - 1967-01-01
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SP - 1
EP - 24
VL - 11
IS - 1
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