Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made

In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist at the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren. Drawing on unparalleled access to governmental, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life, Newton illuminates both the public and the private Warren. As attorney general and then governor of California, and as chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren changed the lives of millions of Americans and reshaped the role of the Supreme Court in American life. By overseeing landmark cases that desegregated schools (Brown v. Board of Education), established a constitutional right of privacy (Griswold v. Connecticut), outlawed prayer in public schools (Engel v. Vitale), and revolutionized police procedure (Miranda v. Arizona), Warren became a target for conservative ideologues. But he also carved a place in history for himself as one of the Supreme Court's most respected justices. This is a monumental biography of a complicated and principled figure and a seminal work of twentieth-century American history.