Abe Fortas : A Biography National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1985) (back cover)

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the very project that defined Amisa's short-lived film career

and Medieval sources are heard loud and clear

Range and depth reflects scope of 'the greatest show on Earth' - includes both Games

documented what they saw

Abe Fortas : A Biography National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1985) (back cover)Abe Fortas was a New Dealer, a sub cabinet official, the founder of an eminent Washington law firm, a close adviser to Lyndon Johnson, and a Supreme Court justice. Nominated by Johnson to be Chief Justice, he was rejected by Congress and resigned from the Court early in the Nixon administration under a cloud of impending scandal. This engrossing book the first full biography of Abe Fortas tells his dramatic story. Drawing on Fortas's previously