Fortas: the rise and ruin of a Supreme Court justice by Murphy, Bruce Allen - (1988)

NY: Morrow. VG in VG DJ. (1988). 2nd ptg. Abe Fortas lived the blueprint of American success, the son of Jewish immigrants, rising from the Memphis slums to become a Professor at Yale Law School, a bright young star in FDR's New Dealers, one of Washington's most influential attorneys, and the favorite confidant of President Lyndon Johnson. In 1965, he became a member of Earl Warren's revolutionary Supreme Court. In 1968, Johnson selected him to succeed Warren but within days White House secretaries would be ordered to destroy all files relating to Fortas. This book reveals long-hidden answers to some of the most intriguing political questions of our age after six years of painstaking study of douments, files and arhives including formerly classified government documents and the White House files Johnson ordered destroyed. Scrape on endpapers where address labels removed. .