A long-delayed insider's view of Supreme Court intrigue in the New Deal era.

The Washington Post | June 9, 2002| | Copyright

THE FORGOTTEN MEMOIR OF JOHN KNOX

A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk

In FDR's Washington

By John Knox

Edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow

Univ. of Chicago. 288 pp. $32.50

John Knox was a mighty odd duck. An "extremely thin, painfully shy teenage boy who grew up in suburban Chicago during the Roaring Twenties," he was an obsessive diarist and, for all his shyness, a remarkably aggressive celebrity-hound who possessed, when he presented himself before the high and mighty, "a cheeky presumptuousness." A student at Harvard Law School during the 1930s, he somehow managed to ...

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