Abe Fortas : A Biography Condition:Well Read Publication Date: 27 Feb 2014

Publication Date: 27 Feb 2014

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Abe Fortas : A Biography Condition:Well Read Publication Date: 27 Feb 2014Abe Fortas was a New Dealer, a sub cabinet official, the founder of an eminent Washington law firm, a close adviser to Lyndon Johnson, and a Supreme Court justice. Nominated by Johnson to be Chief Justice, he was rejected by Congress and resigned from the Court early in the Nixon administration under a cloud of impending scandal. This engrossing book the first full biography of Abe Fortas tells his dramatic story. Drawing on Fortas's previously