A Supreme Court Reading List
This is a list of major books about the Supreme Court, reviewed by The New York Times since 1980, arranged alphabetically by author and linked to the original review:

  • Baker, Liva: The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Brock, David: The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story
  • Bronner, Ethan: Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America

  • Chrisman, Robert and Robert L. Allen (Editors): Court of Appeal: The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and Sexual Politics of Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill
  • Cox, Archibald: The Court and the Constitution
  • Cray, Ed: Chief Justice: A Biography
  • Currie, David P.: The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986

  • Danforth, John C.: Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas
  • Davis, Michael D. and Hunter R. Clark: Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench

  • Eisler, Kim Isaac: A Justice for All: William J. Brennan Jr., and the Decisions That Transformed America

  • Friendly, Fred W.: Minnesota Rag: The Dramatic Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Case That Gave New Meaning to Freedom of the Press

  • Garrow, David J.: Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade
  • Gunther, Gerald: Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge

  • Hill, Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
  • Hirsch, H. N.: The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter
  • Horwitz, Morton J.: The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice
  • Hutchinson, Dennis J.: The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White: A Portrait of Justice Byron R. White

  • Jeffries, John C. Jr.: Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.

  • Kairys, David: Law With Liberty and Justice For Some: A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court
  • Kalman, Laura: Abe Fortas: A Biography
  • Kaufman, Andrew L.: Cardozo

  • Lazarus, Edward: Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court
  • Leuchtenburg, William E.: The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt
  • Lewis, Anthony: Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

  • Mayer, Jane and Jill Abramson: Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
  • Mennel, Robert M. and Christine L. Compston (Editors): Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912-1934
  • Morrison, Toni (Editor): Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
  • Murphy, Bruce Allen: The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices
  • Murphy, Bruce Allen: Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice

  • Newman, Roger K.: Hugo Black: A Biography
  • Newmyer, R. Kent: Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic
  • Novick, Sheldon M.: Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • O'Brien, David M.: Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics

  • Parrish, Michael E.: Felix Frankfurter and His Times: The Reform Years
  • Phelps, Timothy M. and Helen Winternitz: Capitol Games: Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Story of a Supreme Court Nomination
  • Polenberg, Richard: Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech
  • Polenberg, Richard: The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process
  • Posner, Richard A.: Cardozo: A Study in Reputation

  • Rehnquist, William H.: Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson
  • Rehnquist, William H.: The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is
  • Rosenkranz, E. Joshua and Bernard Schwartz (Editors): Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence
  • Rowan, Carl T.: Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall

  • Savage, David G.: Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court
  • Schwartz, Bernard: Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases
  • Schwartz, Bernard: A History of the Supreme Court
  • Schwartz, Bernard: The New Right and the Constitution: Turning Back the Legal Clock
  • Schwartz, Bernard: The Unpublished Opinions of the Warren Court
  • Schwartz, Herman (Editor): The Burger Years: Rights and Wrongs in the Supreme Court 1969-1986
  • Simon, James F.: The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and Civil Liberties in Modern America
  • Simon, James F.: The Center Holds: The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court
  • Simon, Paul: Advice & Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles
  • Smith, Jean Edward: John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

  • Tribe, Laurence H.: God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History

  • Urofsky, Melvin I.: A Conflict of Rights: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action

  • Wellington, Harry H.: Interpreting the Constitution: The Supreme Court and the Process of Adjudication
  • White, G. Edward: Earl Warren: A Public Life
  • White, G. Edward: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self

  • Yarbrough, Tinsley E.: Judicial Enigma: The First Justice Harlan Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
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