Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas: America's Most Controversial Supreme Court Justice by Murphy, Bruce Allen - 2003

NY: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394576284 . Includes extensive Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Douglas emerged from isolated Yakima, Washington, to be dubbed, by the age of thirty, "the most outstanding law professor in the nation"; at age thirty-eight, he was the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cleaning up a corrupt Wall Street during the Great Depression; by the age of forty, he was the second youngest Supreme Court justice in American history, going on to serve longer, and to write more opinions and dissents, than any other justice. . Some pages previously folded down, now righted, else fine: unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped ($35.00) dust jacket is lightly soiled along a couple of edges only, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xvii, 716, (2) pp .