A hero to his valet: an underling spies on the Supreme Court.('The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington')(Critical Essay)

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The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington, edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow. University of Chicago Press, 2002. 288 pages. $32.50.

Had Balzac turned his wit on our nation's capital, the resulting novel might have been the story of John Knox, a wellborn young man of uncertain talent, wanton ambition, and laughable arrogance who served as clerk to one of the most lordly, and personally repellent, figures of the 1930s. Knox arrived in Washington in the middle of a fractious ...

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