Harry A. Blackmun : the outsider justice / Tinsley E. Yarbrough.
When appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by President Nixon, Harry A. Blackmun was seen as a quiet, safe choice to complement the increasingly conservative Court of his boyhood friend, Warren Burger. No one anticipated his seminal opinion championing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, the most contr...
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Table of Contents:
- Dayton's Bluff to Harvard
- Minnesota lawyer
- Circuit judge
- "A ton of bricks"
- The chambers
- The Minnesota twins
- Roe and beyond
- Liberal icon
- Changing the guard
- Citizen Blackmun.