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100 1 $aMurphy, Bruce Allen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82005525
245 10 $aWild Bill :$bthe legend and life of William O. Douglas /$cBruce Allen Murphy.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axvii, 716 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [675]-694) and index.
520 1 $a"William Orville Douglas was both the most accomplished and the most controversial justice ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
520 8 $aHe emerged from isolated Yakima, Washington, to be dubbed, by the age of thirty, "the most outstanding law professor in the nation"; at age thirty-eight, he was the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cleaning up a corrupt Wall Street during the Great Depression; by age forty, he was the second youngest Supreme Court justice in American history, going on to serve longer - and to write more opinions and dissents - than any other justice.".
520 8 $a"In evolving from a pro-government advocate in the 1940s to an icon of liberalism in the 1960s, Douglas became a champion for the rights of privacy, free speech, and the environment. While doing so, "Wild Bill" lived up to his nickname by racking up more marriages, more divorces, and more impeachment attempts aimed against him than any other member of the Court.
520 8 $aBut it was what Douglas did not accomplish that haunted him: He never fulfilled his mother's ambition for him to become president of the United States.".
520 8 $a"Douglas's life was the stuff of novels, but with his eye on his public image and his potential electability to the White House, the truth was not good enough for him. Using what he called "literary license," he wrote three memoirs in which the American public was led to believe that he had suffered from polio as an infant and was raised by an impoverished, widowed mother whose life savings were stolen by the family attorney.
520 8 $aHe further chronicled his time as a poverty-stricken student sleeping in a tent while attending Whitman College, serving as a private in the army during World War I, and "riding the rods" like a hobo to attend Columbia Law School.".
520 8 $a"Relying on fifteen years of exhaustive research in eighty-six manuscript collections, revealing long-hidden documents, and interviews conducted with more than one hundred people, many sharing their recollections for the first time, Bruce Allen Murphy reveals the truth behind Douglas's carefully constructed image."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aDouglas, William O.$q(William Orville),$d1898-1980.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79041741
650 0 $aJudges$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127943
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