Robert H. Jackson: New Deal Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Prosecutor

This biography about Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954)--the first published in fifty years--tells the fascinating story of an extraordinary man who rose from a childhood in rural western New York to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal inner circle during the Great Depression; to the position of attorney general while the nation prepared for World War II; to the Supreme Court bench when it ruled on such significant cases as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; and to chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trial. Despite his remarkable accomplishments, Jackson never attended college or earned a law degree. Quotations from Jackson's personal letters, unpublished autobiography, and oral history bring to life some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. Illustrated with 100 photographs.