Archibald Cox: Conscience Of A Nation
Although Archibald Cox is best remembered as the special  prosecutor whom President Nixon fired in the infamous "Saturday  Night Massacre" for his investigation intoWatergate, Ken Gormley's  biography reveals the full extent of Cox's distinguished career as a  public servant. Starting out as a clerk forLearned Hand, Cox went on  to become a professor at Harvard Law School and an advisor to then-senator John F. Kennedy. When Kennedy became president, he appointed  Cox to the position of solicitor general, where he argued before the  Supreme Court in some of the vital civil rights cases of the era. And  then, of course, there was the Watergate investigation; Gormley  recounts in fascinating detail the wrangling between the Justice  Department and the Oval Office over Nixon's tapes, drawing upon  unpublished documents and interviews with key participants.In an era when special prosecutors have become common fixtures in controversial news stories, Gormley's portrait reveals how one man  carried out the responsibilities of that office with such integrity and  class as to rally a nation behind him.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.