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The Forgotten Memoir of John Knows: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR'S Washington
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Justices At Home: Three Supreme Court Memoirs, Laura Krugman Ray
Justices At Home: Three Supreme Court Memoirs, Laura Krugman Ray
Michigan Law Review
The Supreme Court, once an austere and remote institution, is increasingly the focus of popular attention. The Justices are profiled in the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, photographed with family members for mass-market books, and - on the evening the Court decided Bush v. Gore - televised leaving the courthouse parking garage. In the spring 2002 television season, two hour-long programs were set in the Supreme Court; both were briskly cancelled, but during their brief runs they featured Justices as heroic figures played by prominent actors. When a former law clerk recently published his account of internecine …