RaveThe New York Review of BooksThe inspiring legacy of Justice John Paul Stevens are well represented ... if, as seems likely, the US Supreme Court is poised to embark on a voyage of regression, the book makes for wistful reading as well ... An especially interesting part of Stevens’s book is the first 130 pages or so, which recount his upbringing and training before he joined the Court ... a fascinating aspect of his memoir is his descriptions of how he sought, but often failed, to persuade his colleagues that his view of these issues was consistent with the Constitution, if not, indeed, mandated by it ... Stevens, however, ended this, his last book, without expressing the bitterness that one might expect of a great judge who saw so many of his views rejected by a majority of his colleagues.
Joel Richard Paul
PositiveThe New York Review of Books\"While Paul greatly admires Marshall, he conscientiously provides the evidence on which a more nuanced assessment of Marshall may be made. In particular, it may be suggested that Marshall, while hugely instrumental in assuring for the federal judiciary its limited supervisory role over the legislative branch, exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us ... As Paul’s fine volume repeatedly notes, Marshall not only empowered the federal judiciary but guided it to safety during some of the most perilous years in our nation’s history.\
