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Biographies of 20th century Supreme Court Justices
1.
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion
by:
Seth Stern
4.20 avg rating — 342 ratings
2.
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
by:
Juan Williams
4.21 avg rating — 912 ratings
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Louis D. Brandeis
by:
Melvin I. Urofsky
4.03 avg rating — 420 ratings
4.
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
by:
Linda Greenhouse
4.11 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
5.
Brandeis: A Free Man's Life
by:
Alpheus Thomas Mason
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
6.
William Howard Taft: Chief Justice
by:
Alpheus Thomas Mason
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
6.
Hugo Black: A Biography
by:
Roger K. Newman
3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings
8.
Independent journey: The life of William O. Douglas
by:
James F. Simon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
8.
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
by:
Brad Snyder
4.40 avg rating — 118 ratings
10.
Frank Murphy: The Washington Years
by:
Sidney Fine
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
11.
Super Chief: Earl Warren and His Supreme Court- A Judicial Biography
by:
Bernard Schwartz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
12.
Abe Fortas: A Biography
by:
Laura Kalman
3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
13.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self
by:
G. Edward White
3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings
13.
My Beloved World
by:
Sonia Sotomayor
4.09 avg rating — 33,502 ratings
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Glass and Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol
by:
Nancy L. Maveety
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes
by:
Sheldon M. Novick
3.64 avg rating — 47 ratings
16.
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by:
Irin Carmon
4.18 avg rating — 63,004 ratings
18.
Edward Douglass White, defender of the conservative faith (Southern Biography series)
by:
Robert B. Highsaw
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
19.
Charles Evans Hughes
by:
Merlo J. Pusey
3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
20.
Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made
by:
Jim Newton
4.20 avg rating — 527 ratings
21.
Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People
by:
Philippa Strum
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
21.
Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
by:
David G. Dalin
4.10 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
by:
Melvin I. Urofsky
4.03 avg rating — 420 ratings
24.
Louis D. Brandeis and the Progressive Tradition
by:
Melvin I. Urofsky
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
25.
The Life of Mr. Justice Clarke: A Testament to the Power of Liberal Dissent in America
by:
Hoyt Landon Warner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
26.
Mr. Justice Sutherland, A Man Against the State
by:
Joel Francis Paschal
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
27.
Edward Terry Sanford: A Tennessean on the US Supreme Court
by:
Stephanie L. Slater
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law
by:
Alpheus Thomas Mason
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
29.
Cardozo
by:
Andrew L. Kaufman
3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings
30.
Hugo L. Black: Cold Steel Warrior
by:
Howard Ball
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
31.
Justice Hugo Black and Modern America
by:
Tony A. Freyer
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalism
by:
Tony A. Freyer
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
33.
New Deal Justice: The Life of Stanley Reed of Kentucky
by:
John D. Fassett
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Felix Frankfurter: Judicial Restraint and Individual Liberties
by:
Melvin I. Urofsky
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
35.
Felix Frankfurter and His Times: The Reform Years
by:
Michael E. Parrish
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
36.
Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas
by:
Bruce Allen Murphy
3.89 avg rating — 117 ratings
37.
Frank Murphy: The Detroit Years
by:
Sidney Fine
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Frank Murphy: The New Deal Years
by:
Sidney Fine
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge
by:
John Ferren
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
40.
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography
by:
James E. St. Clair
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
41.
Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark: A Life of Service
by:
Mimi Clark Gronlund
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Sherman Minton: New Deal Senator, Cold War Justice
by:
Linda C. Gugin
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
43.
Earl Warren: A Public Life
by:
G. Edward White
3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings
44.
Failing Justice: Charles Evans Whittaker on the Supreme Court
by:
Craig Alan Smith
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
45.
John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court
by:
Tinsley E. Yarbrough
3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
46.
The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White: A Portrait Of Justice Byron R White
by:
Dennis J. Hutchinson
3.85 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal
by:
David Stebenne
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
48.
Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice
by:
Larry S. Gibson
4.19 avg rating — 84 ratings
49.
Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961
by:
Mark V. Tushnet
4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991
by:
Mark V. Tushnet
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice
by:
Tinsley E. Yarbrough
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
52.
Justice Lewis F. Powell:: A Biography
by:
John C. Jeffries Jr.
4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist
by:
John A. Jenkins
3.49 avg rating — 80 ratings
54.
John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life
by:
Bill Barnhart
3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
55.
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
by:
Joan Biskupic
3.73 avg rating — 437 ratings
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American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
by:
Joan Biskupic
3.95 avg rating — 261 ratings
57.
Scalia: A Court of One
by:
Bruce Allen Murphy
3.75 avg rating — 220 ratings
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David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican On The Rehnquist Court
by:
Tinsley E. Yarbrough
3.30 avg rating — 50 ratings
59.
Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
by:
Kevin Merida
3.71 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
by:
Jane Sherron De Hart
4.22 avg rating — 3,077 ratings