They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. Each had driving ambition and a will to succeed. Each was a self-made man who came from humble beginnings on the edge of poverty. Four more different men could hardly be imagined. A self-invented, tall-tale Westerner who narrowly missed the presidency but expanded individual freedom beyond what anyone before had dreamed. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. Book Synopsis A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as Americas leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative.
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