When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010) - only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices - Fred Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and John Roberts - that he interacted with. He reminisces of being a law clerk during Vinson's tenure; a practicing lawyer for Warren; a circuit judge and junior justice for Burger; a contemporary colleague of Rehnquist; and a colleague of current Chief Justice John Roberts. Along the way, he will discuss his views of some the most significant cases that have been decided by the Court from Vinson, who became Chief Justice in 1946 when Truman was President, to Roberts, who became Chief Justice in 2005. Packed with interesting anecdotes and stories about the Court, Five Chiefs is an unprecedented and historically significant look at the highest court in the United States.

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约翰•保罗•斯蒂文斯

约翰•保罗•斯蒂文斯,美国最高法院第101位大法官。他1920年出生于芝加哥。1941年毕业于芝加哥大学,“二战”期间在美国海军服役,从事密码破译,并获得铜星勋章。战后在西北大学法学院学习,担任过威利•拉特里奇大法官的法官助理。后从事律师工作,兼任众议院司法委员会垄断权力研究小组委员会法律顾问和司法部国家反垄断法研究委员会法律顾问。1970年被理查德•尼克松总统任命为联邦第七巡回上诉法院法官,1975年被杰拉尔德•福特总统任命为联邦最高法院大法官,2010年6月退休。

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何 帆

1978年生,最高人民法院法官,业余从事法政作品著译。著有《大法官说了算：美国司法观察笔记》等。译有《九人：美国最高法院风云》《法官能为民主做什么》《批评官员的尺度：〈纽约时报〉诉警察局长沙利文案》《谁来守护公正：美国最高法院大法官访谈录》《大法官是这样炼成的：哈里•布莱克门的最高法院之旅》《美国最高法院通识读本》《作为法律史学家的狄更斯》等,主编有“美国最高法院大法官译丛”。