Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir by John Paul Stevens. First Edition, hardcover, pages, ISBN: Very rare, valuable First Edition. When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history - only Justice. · Five Chiefs is very definitely a personal memoir, and throughout Justice Stevens adopts the rather startling device of referring to his fellow Justices by their first names -- Bill, Nino, John, Lewis, Ruth, Clarence, etc. -- rather than by their more formal www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 10 mins. · Stevens, who died Tuesday, was appointed by President Ford and served on the court for 35 years before retiring in He spoke to Fresh Air in about his memoir, Five www.doorway.ru: Terry Gross.
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John Paul Stevens, long serving and now retired Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, offers a unique memoir of the highest court in the land. In "Five Chiefs," he offers glimpses of the Court gleaned from the many responsibilities of his life in the law: law clerk, practicing attorney, lower federal court judge, associate justice, and, finally, the "second among equals" as the longest serving associate justice on the Court. With his memoir, “ Five Chiefs,” former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens shows that the court is different from the political branches principally because the justices respect the. In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices. When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history () -- only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time.
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