Title
Thurman Arnold : A Biography / Spencer Weber Waller.
ISBN
9780814795453
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814795453.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
340/.092
Summary
Thurman Arnold (1891-1969) was a major iconoclast of American law and a great liberal of the 20th century. In this first biography of Arnold, Spencer Weber Waller traces Arnold's life from his birth in Laramie, Wyoming, and explores how his western upbringing influenced his distinctive views about law and power. After studying at Princeton and Harvard Law School, Arnold practiced law in Chicago, served in World War I, and eventually returned to Laramie, where he was a prominent practitioner, mayor, and state legislator in the 1920s.As the rise of national corporations began to destroy the local businesses that were the core of his legal practice, Arnold turned from the courtroom to the academy, most notably at Yale Law School, where he became one of the leading spokesmen for the legal realism movement. Arnold's work attracted the attention of Franklin Roosevelt, who appointed him to head the Antitrust Division during the New Deal. He went on to establish Arnold, Fortas & Porter, which became the epitome of the modern Washington, DC law firm, and defended pro-bono hundreds of clients accused of Communist sympathies during the McCarthy era.One of the few individuals who shaped 20th century American law in so many of its facets, Arnold's biography is long overdue, and Waller honors his life and legacy with a book that is both vividly narrated and extensively researched.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Spirit of the West
2 A Young Lawyer and the War
3 Small Town Lawyer and Politician
4 An Academic Entrepreneur
5 Legal Realist and Firebrand
6 Trustbuster
7 The Short Unhappy Judgeship of Thurman Arnold
8 A Firm Beginning
9 Building a Washington Law Firm
10 Final Fights
Epilogue
Appendix A Cases Decided (Opinion), Concurred, or Dissented by Judge Thurman Arnold (in Chronological Order)
Appendix B Principal Writings of Thurman Arnold
Appendix C Selected Bibliography of Works about Thurman Arnold and His Times
Notes
Index
About the Author
