Five Chiefs: Stevens' Forthcoming Book

Retired Supreme Court Justice JP Stevens will be adding a book to his considerable publications: Five Chiefs has been announced by the publisher Little, Brown with a pub date of the First Monday in October.

Here is the description from amazon.com:

When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010)--only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time.

In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices--Fred Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and John Roberts-that he interacted with. He reminisces of being a law clerk for Vinson; a practicing lawyer for Warren; a circuit judge and junior justice for Burger; a contemporary colleague of Rehnquist; and a colleague of current Chief Justice John Roberts. Along the way, he will discuss his views of some the most significant cases that have been decided by the Court from Vinson, who became Chief Justice in 1946 when Truman was President, to Roberts, who became Chief Justice in 2005.

Packed with interesting anecdotes and stories about what goes on inside the Court--how the Justices organize their work, their relationships with one another, how clerks are picked, and much more--Five Chiefs is an unprecedented and historically significant look at the highest court in the United States.

Something to put on that fall reading list.

RR