num_pages: 741
description: The extraordinary story of a man who bestrode his era like a colossus, Hugo Black is the first and only comprehensive biography of the Supreme Court Justice of thirty four years, (1886-1971). Once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Black became one of the most celebrated and important civil libertarians in the history of the United States and the chief twentieth-century proponent of the First Amendment.Newman presents us with the long odyssey of Hugo Black, capturing the man as he was―a brilliant trial lawyer, the investigating senator called by one reporter “a walking encyclopedia with a Southern accent,” and the wily politician and astute justice who led the redirection of American law toward the protection of the individual.
language: English
title: Hugo Black: A Biography
titlecomplete: Hugo Black: A Biography
characters: Wiley Blount Rutledge, Owen Roberts, Tom C. Clark, Harry S. Truman, Warren Burger, William J. Brennan Jr., Hugo Black, Frank Murphy, Arthur Goldberg, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Lyndon B. Johnson, Potter Stewart, John Marshall Harlan II, Harlan F. Stone, Earl Warren, Abe Fortas, Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, John Paul Frank, Richard Nixon, Robert H. Jackson, John H. Bankhead II, Fred M. Vinson
genres: History, Law, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 63
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography
publisher: Fordham University Press