Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made. By Jim Newton. (New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, 2006. Pp. 624. $32.50.)

In 1961, billboards funded by the conservative John Birch Society famously demanded the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court. His abuses, the group argued, included decisions to overturn racial segregation and to protect political dissent. "He will enslave all of us," warned one John Birch member convinced that Warren's judicial activism was dangerously close to communism (386). The campaign proved to be more ...

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