Interview: David Garrow, co-editor of "The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox," discusses Knox's career as a Supreme Court clerk

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06-23-2002

Interview: David Garrow, co-editor of "The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox," discusses Knox's career as a Supreme Court clerk

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In the fall of 1936 a recent Harvard law graduate named John Knox arrived in Washington to take up a position as private secretary and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds. During Knox's year with McRey...

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