Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States Herman Obermayer,
Publisher: Threshold Editions
ISBN: 1439140820
DDC: 920
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-09-15
Summary:
"This book is a final act of posthumous loyalty. Without it, history
will have an incomplete -- and I believe unbalanced -- picture of the
remarkable man who was the sixteenth chief justice of the United
States, a man I was proud to call my friend."• • •The impact of Chief
Justice William Rehnquist -- who served as a Supreme Court justice
for a third of a century and headed the federal judiciary under four
presidents -- cannot be overstated. His dissenting opinion in Roe v.
Wade, and his strongly stated positions on issues as various as
freedom of the press, school prayer, and civil rights, would
guarantee his memory on their own. Chiefly, though, William Rehnquist
will always be remembered for his highly visible role in two of the
most important and contentious political events of recent American
history: the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999 and
the Supreme Court's decision that made George W. Bush the victor in
the presidential election of 2000.Despite his importance as a public
figure, however, William Rehnquist scrupulously preserved his private
life. And while his judicial opinions often inflamed passions and
aroused both ire and praise, they were rarely personal. The
underlying quirks, foibles, and eccentricities of the man were always
under wraps.Now, however, journalist Herman J. Obermayer has broken
that silence in a memoir of their nineteen-year friendship that is
both factually detailed and intensely moving, his own personal
tribute to his dearest friend. In these pages, we meet for the first
time William Rehnquist the man, in a portrait that can only serve to
enhance the legacy of a Chief Justice who will be remembered in
history as being among America's most influential.
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