Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun's lifelong connection with Chief Justice Warren Burger—beginning in kindergarten in St. Paul, Minn., and culminating in 16 years together on the Supreme Court—supplies Greenhouse with one of her main organizing themes in this illuminating study of Blackmun's life and intellectual history. Once the closest of friends, Blackmun (1908–1999) and Burger diverged personally and ideologically, beginning in 1973, when Burger assigned Blackmun to write the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade. Greenhouse, the New York Times's veteran Supreme Court watcher, draws primarily on Blackmun's massive personal archive to show how his authorship of the majority opinion in Roe (7–2) propelled him down several unexpected paths. Blackmun embraced equal protection for women and came to reject capital punishment. A Nixon appointee, Blackmun became the Supreme Court's most liberal justice after the retirement of William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. The personality that emerges in Greenhouse's portrayal is that of a self-effacing and scholarly judge, devoid of partisanship, willing to follow his ideas wherever they led him. Making no pretense at being definitive or comprehensive, Greenhouse sets a high standard in offering an intimate look both at the man and at the development of his judicial thought.

【作者简介】

琳达•格林豪斯（1947-）,哈佛大学拉德克利夫学院学士（1968）,耶鲁法学院硕士（1978）。在《纽约时报》从事过30年联邦最高法院事务报道（1978-2008）,1998年获普利策奖,是美国最杰出的法律记者之一。2008年退休后,她在耶鲁法学院任教,仍为《纽约时报》撰写双周专栏。最新著作是2010年与伊娃•西格尔合著的Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling。

【译者简介】

何帆（1978-）,湖北襄樊人,法学博士,现为最高人民法院法官。著有《大法官说了算：美国司法观察笔记》（法律出版社,2010）,译有《九人：美国最高法院风云》（上海三联书店,2010）、《批评官员的尺度：〈纽约时报〉诉警察局长沙利文案》（北京大学出版社,2011）、《作为法律史学家的狄更斯》（上海三联书店,2009）、《玩转民主：美国大法官眼中的司法与民意》（法律出版社,2011）。另著有刑事司法著作若干。