Murphy, Bruce Allen,

Scalia : a court of one / Bruce Allen Murphy. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - x, 644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-596) and indexes.

Scalia in winter -- Pride of the Scalias -- The chosen few -- The Harvard Hit Parade of the 1950s -- Building a resume -- The President's legal adviser -- Wildflowers among the weeds -- It isn't easy to be right -- Terminology is destiny -- A court of one -- Faint-hearted originalist -- Losing the middle -- The evil Nino -- Master of the barbed opinion -- War of the words -- Bush v. Gore -- Scalia vs. the Pope -- Quack, quack -- The charm offensive -- The dead constitution tour -- Opus SCOTUS -- The rock star of One First Street -- King of the originalists -- The methodology of originalism -- Kennedy's court -- Roberts' rules of order -- Reading law -- Grumpy old Justice.

9780743296496 (hardback) 0743296494 (hardback) 9781451611465 (ebook) 9780743296502 (paperback)

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Scalia, Antonin.


United States. Supreme Court --Biography.


Judges--United States--Biography.
Constitutional law--United States.

KF8745.S33 / M87 2014

347.73/2634 B