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William Orville Douglas was both the most accomplished and the most controversial justice ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. He 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 longerand to write more opinions and dissentsthan any other justice. In evolving from a pro-government advocate in the 1940s to an icon of liberalism in the 1960s, Douglas became a champion for the rights of privacy, free speech, and the environment. While doing so, Wild Bill lived up to his nickname by racking up more marriages, more divorces, and more impeachment attempts aimed against him than any other member of the Court. But it was what Douglas did not accomplish that haunted him: He never fulfilled his mothers ambition for him to become president of the United States. Douglass life was the stuff of novels, but with his eye on his public image and his potenti

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Author

Bruce Allen Murphy

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394576282

Category

history

Subjects

Law, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14