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William O. Douglas served on the Supreme Court of the United States for over 36 years, from 1939 to 1975, the longest term of any Justice. His tenure was marked by an unyielding and brilliantly executed determination to- as he frequently put it- "keep the government off the backs of the people." Together with Hugo Black, Justice Douglas was responsible for many of the Supreme Court decisions which extended the protection of the Due Process Clause of the Constitution; limited the power of the large corporations; protected the maverick and the dissident from government harassment; extended and guarded the civil rights of blacks, of women and of other minorities; safeguarded American public lands and resources from those who would plunder them ... and on ... and on. He wrote more dissenting opinions (and wrote them faster) than any other Justice, and yet many of those dissents were later reflected in legislation or else in the majority opinions of the Court itself. Timely, newsworthy, historically important, This book is the personal record of that great lifelong struggle. It continues the memoirs Justice Douglas began so eloquently in his best-selling 'Go East, Young Man.' For the first time in the history of the Supreme Court, one of the Justices- himself- has set about to give the judicial history of the great issues of American life and to show how these issues were dealt with in the Conference Room and "among the Brethren." With a deep understanding of the Court process, with a pungent wit and an intimate knowledge both of the law and of those who interpreted it, Douglas reveals the Supreme Court as it has never been seen before. -- from Book Jacket.… (altro)
I just finished reading The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas by William O. Douglas. As a lawyer and avid reader, I found large parts of the book fascinating. Among the little-known stories I learned,in the section about racial segregation, I learned about a county that seceded from Confederate Alabama, a "secession within a secession", see Civil War Within Civil War - Secession From Seceders.
This book must have been given to me as a law-school graduation gift in 1982, and I finally got around to reading it. This Autobiography had certain aspects of a tell-all. Some of those tidbits included the sexual and marital peccadilloes of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Other scintillating tidbits included vignettes of his relationships and transactions with the U.S. presidents under which he served. His obvious hero was FDR. I assume this was written before the seamier underside of his life and administration became generally known. He gives hints of believing that LBJ was involved in JFK's assassination.
The Autobiography has a fascinating viewpoint on much of the legal struggles of the era, from a rather liberal perspective. His liberalism was of an old-fashioned, common-sense variety which would be unrecognizable in modern times. Overall, the book is a good read. Other enjoyable books of his have been My Wilderness: The Pacific West and by My Wilderness: East to Katahdin, both by William O. Douglas. ( )
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The world is as it were a city: For which other commonweal is it, that all men can be said to be members of? From this common city it is that understanding, reasoning, and law is derived until us, for from whence else?...shalt not thou say of the world, Thou lovely city of God? - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
If a an does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. --Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than tat which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in depair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred ears after he is dead and forgotten, men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, February 17, 1996
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It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
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The "Darest Thou" philosophy had not made my freight-car journey safe, but it gave promise of greener pastures in the days ahead and helped me through the other barriers and obstacles I was to encounter in my life.
William O. Douglas served on the Supreme Court of the United States for over 36 years, from 1939 to 1975, the longest term of any Justice. His tenure was marked by an unyielding and brilliantly executed determination to- as he frequently put it- "keep the government off the backs of the people." Together with Hugo Black, Justice Douglas was responsible for many of the Supreme Court decisions which extended the protection of the Due Process Clause of the Constitution; limited the power of the large corporations; protected the maverick and the dissident from government harassment; extended and guarded the civil rights of blacks, of women and of other minorities; safeguarded American public lands and resources from those who would plunder them ... and on ... and on. He wrote more dissenting opinions (and wrote them faster) than any other Justice, and yet many of those dissents were later reflected in legislation or else in the majority opinions of the Court itself. Timely, newsworthy, historically important, This book is the personal record of that great lifelong struggle. It continues the memoirs Justice Douglas began so eloquently in his best-selling 'Go East, Young Man.' For the first time in the history of the Supreme Court, one of the Justices- himself- has set about to give the judicial history of the great issues of American life and to show how these issues were dealt with in the Conference Room and "among the Brethren." With a deep understanding of the Court process, with a pungent wit and an intimate knowledge both of the law and of those who interpreted it, Douglas reveals the Supreme Court as it has never been seen before. -- from Book Jacket.
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This book must have been given to me as a law-school graduation gift in 1982, and I finally got around to reading it. This Autobiography had certain aspects of a tell-all. Some of those tidbits included the sexual and marital peccadilloes of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Other scintillating tidbits included vignettes of his relationships and transactions with the U.S. presidents under which he served. His obvious hero was FDR. I assume this was written before the seamier underside of his life and administration became generally known. He gives hints of believing that LBJ was involved in JFK's assassination.
The Autobiography has a fascinating viewpoint on much of the legal struggles of the era, from a rather liberal perspective. His liberalism was of an old-fashioned, common-sense variety which would be unrecognizable in modern times. Overall, the book is a good read. Other enjoyable books of his have been My Wilderness: The Pacific West and by My Wilderness: East to Katahdin, both by William O. Douglas. (