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The forgotten memoir of John Knox
a year in the life of a Supreme Court clerk in FDR's Washington
By Knox, John & Hutchinson, Dennis J. & Garrow, David J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-22644-862-6
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2002
James C. McReynolds, who served on the Supreme Court from 1914 to 1941, was one of the worst of the more than 100 justices who have presided from America's highest bench, and Knox (1907-97) had the misfortune of clerking for him. One of the so-called Four Horsemen, conservative judicial activists who did their best to overturn New Deal legislation, McReynolds and his fellow dissenters provoked Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Supreme Court packing plan," which attempted to fill the court with supporters. Ironically, the plan had been proposed previ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
