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Robert H. Jackson: New Deal Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Prosecutor by Gail Jarrow
Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills Press, 2008/ages 10 to adult
Awards
Best Young-Adult Books of 2008 - Kirkus Reviews
Best Children's Books of the Year - Bank Street College of Education
Top 40 YA Non-Fiction Books - Pennsylvania School Librarians Association
Cream of the Crop - Maine Regional Library System
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 Quotations from Jackson's personal letters, unpublished autobiography, and oral history bring to life some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century.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.
"Jarrow's engrossing biography should bring Robert H. Jackson some well-deserved attention...Excellent as a biography, this work also provides inside information about the Supreme Court and an interesting look at the Nuremberg Trial... Myriad period photographs with informative captions round out this excellent offering. An outstanding addition to most collections."
~Kirkus (starred review)
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