David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195159332)

When the first President Bush chose David Hackett Souter for the Supreme Court in 1990, the slender New Englander with the shy demeanor and ambiguous past was quickly dubbed a "stealth candidate". Since his appointment, Souter has embraced a flexible, evolving, and highly pragmatic judicial style that embraces a high regard for precedent--even liberal decisions of the Warren and Burger Courts with which he may have personally disagreed. Ultimately, Yarbrough contends, Souter has become the principal Rehnquist Court opponent of the originalist, text-bound jurisprudence that many of the more conservative Justices profess to champion. Sifting through Souter's opinions, papers of the Justice's contemporaries and other relevant records and interviews, esteemed Supreme Court biographer Tinsley Yarbrough here gives us the real David Souter, crafting a fascinating account of one of the heretofore most elusive Justices in the history of the Court.


Author: Tinsley E. Yarbrough
ISBN-10: 0195159330
ISBN-13: 9780195159332
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2005
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.51h x 6.50w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2005 pg. 55
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 55
Library Journal 09/15/2005 pg. 77