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The Supreme Court and Its Justices

Baker, Liva. The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes. New
 York: HarperCollins, 1991.    

Bickel, Alexander. 

 - - The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics. 2d ed.
 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.    

 - - The Morality of Consent. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.    

Cheney, Timothy D.  Who Makes the Law: The Supreme Court, Congress, the States, and
 Society. Upper Saddle Ridge:  Prentice-Hall, 1998.  

Clark, Hunter P.  Justice Brennan: The Great Conciliator. Secaucus: Carol Publishing Group,
 1995.   
 
Cooper, Phillip J.  Battles on the Bench:  Conflict Inside the Supreme Court.  Lawrence:
 University Press of Kansas, 1995.    

Davis, Michael and Hunter Clark. Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the
 Bench. Secaucus: Carol Publishing Group, 1992.   
 
Davis, Sue.  Justice Rehnquist and the Constitution. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
 1989.    

Douglas, William O.  The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas.
 New York: Random House, 1980.   
 
Dunne, Gerald T.  Justice Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court.  New York:
 Simon and Schuster, 1970.

Frankfurter, Felix.  Felix Frankfurter Reminisces: Recorded in Talks with Harlan B. Phillips.
 New York: Reynal, 1960.
  
Gerber, Scott D.  First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas.  New York: New
 York University Press, 1999. 
  
Hobson, Charles F.  The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law. Lawrence:
 University Press of Kansas, 1996.   
 
Hutchinson, Dennis J.  The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White:  A Portrait of Justice Byron
 R. White. New York: Free Press, 1998.  
 
Irons, Peter H. 

 - - Brennan vs. Rehnquist: The Battle for the Constitution. New York: Knopf, 1994.

 - - A People's History of the Supreme Court.  New York: Viking, 1999.   

Lazarus, Edward.  Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles
 Inside the Supreme Court.  New York: Times Books, 1998.    

Lerner, Max.  Nine Scorpions in a Bottle: Great Judges and Cases of the Supreme Court.
 New York: Arcade Publishing, 1994.    

Maveety, Nancy.  Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Strategist on the Supreme Court.  Lanham,
 MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1996.    

Perry, H.W.  Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court.
 Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.    

Posner, Richard.  Cardozo: A Study in Reputation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
 1990.    

Schwartz, Bernard.  Decision:  How the Supreme Court Decides Cases.  New York: Oxford
 University Press, 1996.    

Simon, Paul.  Advice & Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and the Intriguing History
 of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles.  Washington: National Press Books,
 1992.  
 
Slotnick, Elliot E.  Television News and the Supreme Court :  All the News That's Fit To Air?
 Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.   
 
Smolla, Rodney A., ed.  A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court.  Durham: Duke University
 Press, 1995.    

Strum, Philippa.  Brandeis:  Beyond Progressivism.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
 1993.    

Woodward, Bob and Scott Armstrong. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court.  New York:
 Simon & Schuster, 1979.