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Much ado about The Brethren-and another "inside"book...
Tell-it-all books on the Supreme Court may yet become a new publishing genre. Sales of The Brethren, the gossipy, 467-page "inside" look at the high bench by Watergate Sleuth Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, have soared since it was released by Simon & Schuster in December. Now the court is about to be shaken further by a book that may draw even more attention, if only because it was written by someone who really did have firsthand knowledge of the institution's personalities and practices: Justice William O. Douglas...
...from Random House this fall, shows that Douglas was bold in setting down his often acid-etched opinions of the court and his colleagues. A former law clerk of Douglas' who has seen the early drafts describes some of the Justice's comments about his brethren as "incredibly nasty. They read like something that Alice Roosevelt Longworth would have written...
...maverick. The work is known to contain an especially vivid and unflattering portrait of Douglas' earliest nemesis on the court, the late Felix Frankfurter. Of the current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment, as indeed he does in The Brethren, where he is depicted as a vain, posturing maneuverer who manipulates the court's rules to help him get his way. But others get drubbings too. Thurgood Marshall, for example, is criticized for weakness, even though he had been an ideological ally of Douglas...
...Brethren, Woodward & Armstrong...