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PRAISE FOR JUSTICE FOR ALL

This tough-minded but essentially admiring book is itself an act of considerable courage. Warrens enthusiasm for locking up the states Japanese and refusing to apologize for so doing (he sincerely thought he was acting in Californias best interest) makes praising him politically incorrect, especially among liberal Democrats. He is an unmentionable anathema to todays ruling Republicans. So, the legacy of Bakersfields Earl Warren, who died in 1974, remains suspended in silent limbo. Newtons book is a loud protest against that silence.Los Angeles Times Book Review

The great scope of the nation he made as chief justice from 1953 to 1969 is an extraordinary one to consider, as is the man himself. In Justice for All, both receive a vivid and distinguished account.The Boston Globe

Deeply researched... provides insight and a timely reminder into the character of the most consequential justice of the last half-century.

Chicago Tribune

Incisive and highly readable.San Francisco Chronicle

Excellent... scrupulous... subtle... Newtons comprehensive and balanced political history usefully cuts through the technical details and casts fresh light on Warrens legacy.The Washington Post

A thorough and enlightening biography.The Atlantic

Meticulously researched and well-written.The Dallas Morning News

[Newtons] reconstructions of the dickerings, compromises, and psychological gamesmanship that went into forging each ruling under Warrens guidance are fascinating, exceptionally lucid in laying out the legal issues and political context of every major case, and organized with compelling narrative momentum.Los Angeles magazine

An enjoyable and informative read. Newton combines academic scholarship with journalistic writing.Daily Journal (Los Angeles and San Francisco)

Newton does [Warrens legacy] more than ample honor in his fine biography.

The (Durham, NC) Herald-Sun

Los Angeles Times editor and reporter Newton delivers the definitive biography of Earl Warren (1891-1974) for this generation. Newtons masterful narrative synthesizes Warren in all his contradictory guises.... Using testimony of insiders who knew the man well, Newton brilliantly depicts the many-sided Warren.Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)

It will be a long, long time before someone writes a better biography of Earl Warren than Jim Newton has written. Newtons choices for the Court years are judicious and show a sure hand in understanding what was important and what was not. For anyone with an interest in either twentieth-century American history or the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice for All is a must.

Lucas A. Powe, History Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club

This is exemplary biographyreadable, intellectually keen, authoritative, and when appropriate, moving. It captures the anguish of an America struggling with racial injustice, the Kennedy assassination, and other national travails. At the heart of the story is a middle-of-the-road Republican from California who, when tested, proves anything but ordinary.

John S. Carroll, former editor, Los Angeles Times

A thorough and thoughtful view of Warren and his place in American legal and political history.Library Journal

Ours is a golden age of political biography, and nowhere is this more evident than in Jim Newtons new and ambitious reassessment of the life of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Warrens pivotal role in the making of contemporary America. Only a skilled and seasoned reporter with a comprehensive command of Warrens California background could have produced this definitive study.

Kevin Starr, professor of history, University of Southern California, and author of California and the American Dream

The best judicial biography I have read. A compelling and masterfully written account of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century America.

Erwin Chemerinsky, constitutional scholar and Duke University law professor

A superb new biography... Highly readable prose... Newton mined archival and other material on Warren with the same thoroughness that the Forty-Niners once devoted to California gold fields.Washington Lawyer

[Newton] is... a writer capable of making history read like good literature.

Orange County Register

To Karlene and Jack

Prologue

FIRST VACANCY

THE GOVERNOR WAS ASLEEP, and those who knew him knew he did not like interruption. So when Californias First Lady snatched the receiver from its cradle at dawn on September 8, 1953, she assumed it was urgent.

Id like to talk to the boss and its really important, Bartley Cavanaugh said as she answered. Nina Warren was a gentle woman but a tough guardian, protective of her husband and children. She did not put callers through casually. This time, she heard the tightness in Cavanaughs voice and relented. Ill wake him up.

Cavanaugh had known Earl Warren for more than thirty years. Theyd been acquaintances first, their lives crossing occasionally in the years just after World War I, when they both worked in the hustle and grab of Californias legislature, Warren as a young prosecutor with occasional business in Sacramento, and Cavanaugh as the district manager for a cement company with government work. In 1939, when Warrens career was just taking off and he was confronted with a tough first test of his new position as California attorney general, hed hauled Cavanaugh before a grand jury to make him testify about political contributions to Frank Merriam, who had left the California governorship just weeks earlier and whom Cavanaugh had served as a campaign manager.

Now they were close, unusual for Warren, who was friendly with many people but intimate with few. Warren had an extraordinary capacity for names and personal detailsa self-taught and much-practiced politicians skill for recalling a constituents alma mater or the name of his oldest son, for absorbing the interest and attention of the person with whom he was speaking, and, for that moment, drawing that person to his intense attention. But for all that bluffness, Warren was a private man with few ardent associations outside his family. He was formal and reservedhe stood whenever his wife entered a room, looked good in a tux, held up his end of a receiving linebut he shared little of his inner self. He rarely sought or accepted help. Cavanaugh was one of those few who could so presume.

When Warrens voice, a voice known to every Californian of his generation, came sleepily on the line, Cavanaugh blurted out the news: Did you know that the chief justice has just died? he asked.

No, I didnt, Warren responded. Thats too bad.

Well, Cavanaugh asked, would you mind if I got my nose into this thing?

Warren was skeptical. This is a field, the governor offered cautiously, that you shouldnt do too much in.

If reserve was one of Warrens identifying characteristics, caution was another. Warrens ascent through California politics had been deliberatehe spent more than a decade as Alameda Countys district attorney before an opening convinced him to run for attorney general. Once there, he had been inclined to stay, but the states then governor slighted Warren, and Warren did not take insult lightly. At the next opportunity, he ran for the job of governor and pushed his adversary aside. Still, that had taken provocation. Warren did not make snap decisions, and Cavanaugh knew it. Moreover, this was a spot on the Supreme Court, and the audience for it was not the electorate but a president.

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