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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...
...court. The book shot to the top of the bestseller lists within days after it first appeared, and it has stayed at or near the top of the charts ever since. Simon & Schuster, which has printed 600,000 copies, believes that the book will eventually outsell even Co-Author Woodward's Watergate works, The Final Days and All the President's Men. But if The Brethren is doing surprisingly well, it is also getting harsh judgments from its most critical readers, legal experts and other well-informed court observers...
...authors two years to research and write, was drawn largely from interviews of people on the court's sidelines, including some 170 present and former clerks, the bright young law school graduates who serve as the Justices' aides. Little, apparently, came from the several Justices with whom Woodward and Armstrong talked. Even so, the critics note, the narrative is stippled with much detail about the Justices' inner motives and feelings: Potter Stewart's stomach is said to "knot" before a meeting with President Nixon; William Brennan "felt betrayed" at one point; Burger, who never spoke...
...deft combination of sidestepping and counter-punching. "We can only point out what they (the administration) are doing about inflation and energy and that they are long term problems. We also point out that the programs Senator Kennedy has proposed are unrealistic and actually fuel inflation," says Woodward. More specifically, the Carter people try to emphasize recent executive accomplishments, such as civil service reform and the creation of the Department of Education, while reminding voters that Carter has so far fulfilled his vow to supply the Northeast with home heating oil for the winter...
...Brethren, Woodward & Armstrong...