VICTORY - An Island Tale

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co.. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. Autograph; xviii, 412 pages; Clean and secure in original flexible navy leather binding with gilt lettering, some wear at spine. Former owner's signature on ffep "Potter Stewart" U.S. Supreme Court Justice. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Potter Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who was retiring. Stewart served on the Supreme Court until he announced his retirement from the Court on June 18, 1981 at the age of 66. During his tenure (1958-1981) as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Potter Stewart made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Stewart leaned toward moderate, pragmatic positions, but was often in the position of dissenting during his time on the Warren Court. Stewart's philosophy could be most coherently traced to Robert Jackson, about whom Stewart said: "He saw that 'judicial activism' could be a deadening and stultifying force... that every coercive and centralizing court decision deals a blow ... to the ability and then to the will of the democratic process to operate with responsibility and vigor." ; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated .