Justice for All by Jim Newton

PRAISE FOR JUSTICE FOR ALL
    â€œThis tough-minded but essentially admiring book is itself an act of considerable courage. Warren’s enthusiasm for locking up the state’s Japanese and refusing to apologize for so doing (he sincerely thought he was acting in California’s best interest) makes praising him politically incorrect, especially among liberal Democrats. He is an unmentionable anathema to today’s ruling Republicans. So, the legacy of Bakersfield’s Earl Warren, who died in 1974, remains suspended in silent limbo. Newton’s book is a loud protest against that silence.”— Los Angeles Times Book Review
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    â€œThe great scope of ‘the nation he made’ as chief justice from 1953 to 1969 is an extraordinary one to consider, as is the man himself. In Justice for All , both receive a vivid and distinguished account.”— The Boston Globe
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    â€œDeeply researched . . . provides insight and a timely reminder into the character of the most consequential justice of the last half-century.”
    â€” Chicago Tribune
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    â€œIncisive and highly readable.”— San Francisco Chronicle
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    â€œExcellent . . . scrupulous . . . subtle . . . Newton’s comprehensive and balanced political history usefully cuts through the technical details and casts fresh light on Warren’s legacy.”— The Washington Post
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    â€œA thorough and enlightening biography.”— The Atlantic
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    â€œMeticulously researched and well-written.”— The Dallas Morning News
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    â€œ[Newton’s] reconstructions of the dickerings, compromises, and psychological gamesmanship that went into forging each ruling under Warren’s guidance are fascinating, exceptionally lucid in laying out the legal issues and political context of every major case, and organized with compelling narrative momentum.”— Los Angeles magazine
    â€œAn enjoyable and informative read. Newton combines academic scholarship with journalistic writing.”— Daily Journal (Los Angeles and San Francisco)
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    â€œNewton does [Warren’s legacy] more than ample honor in his fine biography.”
    â€” The (Durham, NC) Herald-Sun
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    â€œ Los Angeles Times editor and reporter Newton delivers the definitive biography of Earl Warren (1891-1974) for this generation. Newton’s masterful narrative synthesizes Warren in all his contradictory guises. . . . Using testimony of insiders who knew the man well, Newton brilliantly depicts the many-sided Warren.”— Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
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    â€œIt will be a long, long time before someone writes a better biography of Earl Warren than Jim Newton has written. Newton’s choices for the Court years are judicious and show a sure hand in understanding what was important and what was not. For anyone with an interest in either twentieth-century American history or the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice for All is a must.”
    â€”Lucas A. Powe, History Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club
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    â€œThis is exemplary biography—readable, intellectually keen, authoritative, and when appropriate, moving. It captures the anguish of an America struggling with racial injustice, the Kennedy assassination, and other national travails. At the heart of the story is a middle-of-the-road Republican from California who, when tested, proves anything but ordinary.”
    â€”John S. Carroll, former editor, Los Angeles Times
    â€œA thorough and thoughtful view of Warren and his place in American legal and political history.”— Library Journal
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    â€œOurs is a golden age of political biography, and nowhere is this more evident than in Jim Newton’s new and ambitious reassessment of the life of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Warren’s pivotal role in the making of contemporary America. Only a skilled and seasoned reporter with a comprehensive command of