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Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas

par Bruce Murphy

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William Orville Douglas was both the most accomplished and the most controversial justice ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. He emerged from isolated Yakima, Washington, to be dubbed, by the age of thirty, "the most outstanding law professor in the nation"; at age thirty-eight, he was the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cleaning up a corrupt Wall Street during the Great Depression; by the age of forty, he was the second youngest Supreme Court justice in American history, going on to serve longer--and to write more opinions and dissents--than any other justice. In evolving from a pro-government advocate in the 1940s to an icon of liberalism in the 1960s, Douglas became a champion for the rights of privacy, free speech, and the environment. While doing so, "Wild Bill" lived up to his nickname by racking up more marriages, more divorces, and more impeachment attempts aimed against him than any other member of the Court. Using what he called "literary license" he wrote three memoirs in which the American public was led to believe that he had suffered from polio as an infant and was raised by an impoverished, widowed mother whose life savings were stolen by the family attorney. He further chronicled his time as a poverty-stricken student sleeping in a tent while attending Whitman College, serving as a private in the army during World War I, and "riding the rods" like a hobo to attend Columbia Law School. Relying on fifteen years of exhaustive research Bruce Allen Murphy reveals the truth behind Douglas's carefully constructed image.… (plus d'informations)
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3823. Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas, by Bruce Allen Murphy (read 11 Nov 2003) I greatly enjoyed this book. Douglas was born Oct 16, 1898, in Maine, Minnesota, and died in Washington, D.C. on 19 Jan 1980. He was on the Supreme Court from Apr 17, 1939, till Nov. 12, 1975. This book is unflaggingly interesting and a delight to read, even though the legal analysis is a bit thin--I don't think the author is a lawyer. The almost choice of Douglas as FDR's vice-president in 1944 is of highest interest, and has a bit different take than does Robert Ferrell's fine book, Choosing Truman: The Democratic Convention of 1944 (read 17 May 2002). Murphy I think proves that the famous note by FDR did list Truman first, not Douglas, as some claimed. One has to be glad Truman was picked. Douglas had many fine qualities but as a human being he was not honest and his later private life (four wives) was a disgrace. The way he treated his law clerks was a horror--I doubt McReynolds was worse in some ways. So the book is debunking in many respects but the research is very thorough--156 pages of notes and a 19 page bibliography. A fascinating and absorbing book. ( )
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William Orville Douglas was both the most accomplished and the most controversial justice ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. He emerged from isolated Yakima, Washington, to be dubbed, by the age of thirty, "the most outstanding law professor in the nation"; at age thirty-eight, he was the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cleaning up a corrupt Wall Street during the Great Depression; by the age of forty, he was the second youngest Supreme Court justice in American history, going on to serve longer--and to write more opinions and dissents--than any other justice. In evolving from a pro-government advocate in the 1940s to an icon of liberalism in the 1960s, Douglas became a champion for the rights of privacy, free speech, and the environment. While doing so, "Wild Bill" lived up to his nickname by racking up more marriages, more divorces, and more impeachment attempts aimed against him than any other member of the Court. Using what he called "literary license" he wrote three memoirs in which the American public was led to believe that he had suffered from polio as an infant and was raised by an impoverished, widowed mother whose life savings were stolen by the family attorney. He further chronicled his time as a poverty-stricken student sleeping in a tent while attending Whitman College, serving as a private in the army during World War I, and "riding the rods" like a hobo to attend Columbia Law School. Relying on fifteen years of exhaustive research Bruce Allen Murphy reveals the truth behind Douglas's carefully constructed image.

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