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...Dusting off the “grown-up?? heroes of my childhood, it was a shock to learn that I had lapped them all. Nancy Drew (don’t laugh) is as perpetually 18 as her strawberry blond hair and two-dimensional storylines; Jane Eyre is 19 when she reunites for good with a late-thirty-something Mr. Rochester (why did that always seem romantic before?); and the life crises of Holden Caulfield and Esther Greenwood have come and gone by 20. Worse yet, Romeo and Juliet (at approximately 16 and 14, respectively) are practically prepubescent...
...states that he is writing for “the interested, informed non-lawyer,” and wishes to “leave the reader feeling that he knows considerably more about the Supreme Court when he puts the book down than he did when he picked it up??? In the aptly titled The Supreme Court, Rehnquist succeeds in doing exactly that, throwing in anecdotes, trivia and a tour of American history while shedding light on the branch of government most shrouded in mystery...