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Kalman, who was at Harvard last year as a fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, is well-respected as a legal historian for her biography of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas.
"I think her Fortas biography may be the single best judicial biography of an American Supreme Court jus- tice," said Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz.
The Globe also noted that Breyer would be the first J ewish Supreme Court justice since Abe Fortas left in 1966, a factor that could make him a strong candidate for an appointment to the high court.
The deviousness, the bullying and the lying, which ultimately consumed Johnson, are reported so graphically in some passages that a reader must wonder how Califano or any other person could work for such a tyrant. "Unzip your fly," L.B.J. challenged Califano, when the aide believed he had cut a good...
-- When Lyndon Johnson picked Justice Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice in 1968, conservatives like South Carolina's Strom Thurmond demanded that he explain his judicial philosophy; after 10 days on the hot seat, Fortas was ultimately rejected. But during the Bork hearings, Thurmond argued that his colleagues should consider...