Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren.

Trial | August 1, 1997| | Copyright

Ed Cray Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY10020 603 pp., $30

University of Southern California journalism professor and biographer Ed Cray brings to life a man who may well be the least understood great American of the 20th century. Earl Warren was by every measure an utterly ordinary man. He possessed neither great wealth, brilliant intellect, nor significant political power. Yet he moved America farther than most political leaders toward living up to its own ideals.

Warren, son of a Bakersfield railroad worker, attended college and law ...

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