Go East, Young Man: the Early Years
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 493
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Orville Douglas
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780394749020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James F. Simon
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames F. Simon is Martin Professor of Law Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of New York Law School and the author of eight books on American history, law, and politics. This first major biography of Justice William O. Douglas presents a vital, human portrait of the most controversial man to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in its 191 year history. Simon researched this book for three and a half years and interviewed Douglas's friends and enemies, his children, his wives and Douglas himself. His causes so offended conservative members of Congress that, on four separate occasions, they tried to impeach him. An insightful and intimate portrait of Douglas's generosity and pettiness, his genius and intellectual laziness, his personal problems and his public greatness.
Author: Bruce Allen Murphy
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 760
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Orville Douglas was both the most accomplished and the most controversial justice ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. He emerged from isolated Yakima, Washington, to be dubbed, by the age of thirty, “the most outstanding law professor in the nation”; at age thirty-eight, he was the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cleaning up a corrupt Wall Street during the Great Depression; by the age of forty, he was the second youngest Supreme Court justice in American history, going on to serve longer—and to write more opinions and dissents—than any other justice. In evolving from a pro-government advocate in the 1940s to an icon of liberalism in the 1960s, Douglas became a champion for the rights of privacy, free speech, and the environment. While doing so, “Wild Bill” lived up to his nickname by racking up more marriages, more divorces, and more impeachment attempts aimed against him than any other member of the Court. But it was what Douglas did not accomplish that haunted him: He never fulfilled his mother’s ambition for him to become president of the United States. Douglas’s life was the stuff of novels, but with his eye on his public image and his potential electability to the White House, the truth was not good enough for him. Using what he called “literary license,” he wrote three memoirs in which the American public was led to believe that he had suffered from polio as an infant and was raised by an impoverished, widowed mother whose life savings were stolen by the family attorney. He further chronicled his time as a poverty-stricken student sleeping in a tent while attending Whitman College, serving as a private in the army during World War I, and “riding the rods” like a hobo to attend Columbia Law School. Relying on fifteen years of exhaustive research in eighty-six manuscript collections, revealing long-hidden documents, and interviews conducted with more than one hundred people, many sharing their recollections for the first time, Bruce Allen Murphy reveals the truth behind Douglas’s carefully constructed image. While William O. Douglas wrote fiction in the form of memoir, Murphy presents the truth with a narrative flair that reads like a novel.
Author: William O. Douglas
Publisher: Pierides Press
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1447400135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam O. Douglas was one of that rare mix of man that helped define America, a judge of the supreme court and also a lifelong outdoorsman. This is his story in his words and conveys the joy he felt for the wild untouched vastness of the great forests and the high snow capped peaks which he pitted himself against. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: New Word City
Published: 2015-04-08
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 1612308570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Douglas Brinkley and American Heritage have done a grand job. This is a first-rate book: fair, clear, and enormously welcome." - David McCullough "Douglas Brinkley's one-volume history is a riveting narrative of unique people who have come to call themselves American. There is no dust on these pages as the author brilliantly tells our national story with skill and brevity." In this rich and inspiring book, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States - a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes thirteen small British colonies fought for their freedom, then established a democratic nation that spanned the continent, and went on to become a world power. This book will be treasured by anyone interested in the story of America.
Author: William Orville Douglas
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys conservation in the United States, its history and present problems, and examines county, state, and municipal parks, Indian reservations, and bird and animal sanctuaries.
Author: Bob Woodward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 717
ISBN-13: 1439126348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices—maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.
Author: William Orville Douglas
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDouglas' own story of his life from his boyhood to his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1939. He tells about poverty, polio, and minorities.