Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun's lifelong connection with Chief Justice Warren Burger—beginning in kindergarten in St. Paul, Minn., and culminating in 16 years together on the Supreme Court—supplies Greenhouse with one of her main organizing themes in this illuminating study of Blackmun's life and intellectual history. Once the closest of friends, Blackmun (1908–1999) and Burger diverged personally and ideologically, beginning in 1973, when Burger assigned Blackmun to write the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade. Greenhouse, the New York Times's veteran Supreme Court watcher, draws primarily on Blackmun's massive personal archive to show how his authorship of the majority opinion in Roe (7–2) propelled him down several unexpected paths. Blackmun embraced equal protection for women and came to reject capital punishment. A Nixon appointee, Blackmun became the Supreme Court's most liberal justice after the retirement of William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. The personality that emerges in Greenhouse's portrayal is that of a self-effacing and scholarly judge, devoid of partisanship, willing to follow his ideas wherever they led him. Making no pretense at being definitive or comprehensive, Greenhouse sets a high standard in offering an intimate look both at the man and at the development of his judicial thought.

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琳達•格林豪斯（1947-），哈佛大學拉德剋利夫學院學士（1968），耶魯法學院碩士（1978）。在《紐約時報》從事過30年聯邦最高法院事務報道（1978-2008），1998年獲普利策奬，是美國最傑齣的法律記者之一。2008年退休後，她在耶魯法學院任教，仍為《紐約時報》撰寫雙周專欄。最新著作是2010年與伊娃•西格爾閤著的Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling。

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何帆（1978-），湖北襄樊人，法學博士，現為最高人民法院法官。著有《大法官說瞭算：美國司法觀察筆記》（法律齣版社，2010），譯有《九人：美國最高法院風雲》（上海三聯書店，2010）、《批評官員的尺度：〈紐約時報〉訴警察局長沙利文案》（北京大學齣版社，2011）、《作為法律史學傢的狄更斯》（上海三聯書店，2009）、《玩轉民主：美國大法官眼中的司法與民意》（法律齣版社，2011）。另著有刑事司法著作若乾。