Hugo Black: A Biography
Roger K. Newman
The extraordinary story of a man who bestrode his era like a colossus, Hugo Black is the first and only comprehensive biography of the Supreme Court Justice of thirty four years, (1886-1971). Once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Black became one of the most celebrated and important civil libertarians in the history of the United States and the chief twentieth-century proponent of the First Amendment. Newman presents us with the long odyssey of Hugo Black, capturing the man as he was -- a brilliant trial lawyer, the investigating senator called by one reporter 'a walking encyclopedia with a Southern accent, ' and the wily politician and astute justice who led the redirection of American law toward the protection of the individual.
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- 1994
- ISBN-13
- 9780685747155
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Supreme Court justiceCivil libertiesFirst Amendment law
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(1995)
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