THE PARTISAN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM REHNQUIST

Book ID/图书代码： 11320013B61764

English Summary/英文概要： As a young lawyer practicing in Arizona, far from the political center of the country, William Hubbs Rehnquist’s iconoclasm made him a darling of Goldwater Republicans. He was brash and articulate. Although he was unquestionably ambitious and extraordinarily self-confident, his journey to Washington required a mixture of good-old-boy connections and rank good fortune. An outsider and often lone dissenter on his arrival, Rehnquist outlasted the liberal vestiges of the Warren Court and the collegiate conservatism of the Burger Court, until in 1986 he became the most overtly political conservative to sit as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Over that time Rehnquist’s thinking pointedly did not––indeed, could not––evolve. Dogma trumped leadership. So, despite his intellectual gifts, Rehnquist left no body of law or opinions that define his tenure as chief justice or even seem likely to endure. Instead, Rehnquist bestowed a different legacy: he made it respectable to be an expedient conservative on the Court.

The story of how and why Rehnquist rose to power is as compelling as it is improbable. Rehnquist left behind no memoir, and there has never been a substantial biography of him: Rehnquist was an uncooperative subject, and during his lifetime he made an effort to ensure that journalists would have scant material to work with. John A. Jenkins has produced the first full biography of Rehnquist, exploring the roots of his political and judicial convictions and showing how a brilliantly instinctive jurist, who began his career on the Court believing he would only ever be an isolated voice of right-wing objection, created the ethos of the modern Supreme Court.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 伦奎斯特为何执掌权力，如何上台是个引人注目的故事，虽然这几乎也是不可能的。伦奎斯特没有留下回忆录，也从没有关于他的实质性的传记。伦奎斯特不肯合作，而且在他有生之年，他留给记者们的资料寥寥。

约翰•A•詹金斯完成了第一部完整的伦奎斯特传记,探寻他政治定罪和司法定罪的依据，发现他是一位绝顶聪明的天才法学家，他创造了现代最高法院的精神。（Pêche）

Awards/获奖情况：“A much-awarded legal journalist serves up an investigative biography of the controversial, late chief justice.” ——Kirkus

“While Jenkins is an informed and balanced commentator on the politics surrounding presidential appointments to the Court, Rehnquist’s legal legacy, and relationships among the justices, he is equally interested in Rehnquist the man—his character, his predilections, his demons…In an accessible and satisfying biography, Jenkins finds the right balance between the law and the man, the legal and the human.” ——Publishers Weekly

“‘Partisan’ is the perfect title to describe the conservative ideologue who became the 16th Chief Justice of the United States. And John Jenkins proves himself a perfect biographer in writing the first full non-legalistic look at this reclusive and enigmatic personality who pushed the nation’s High Court to the political right. This is an important, engaging and informative read.”—— John W. Dean, author of The Rehnquist Choice and Nixon White House Counsel

“Though it may not be cheered by Rehnquist fans, “The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist” is no quick hit job. Mr. Jenkins and his research assistants pored through Rehnquist archives and the papers of other justices to illuminate some little-known corners of Chief Justice Rehnquist’s life.” ——Wall Street Journal

“Jenkins’s ‘The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist’ breaks new ground by unearthing the roots of Rehnquist’s judicial dogma…Jenkins is a scalding critic of both Rehnquist’s constitutional philosophy and of how the late chief justice put it to work. While the book is scrupulously documented, a product of well-tilled archives, interviews, audio analysis and FBI files, Jenkins doesn’t spend much time plumbing the origins of that conservatism. But neither, he suggests, did Rehnquist.” ——Thomson Reuters

“Sure to incite passions among both conservative and liberal court watchers.” ——Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Jenkins illuminates both the human side of Rehnquist, his parsimony and addiction to prescription painkillers, and his judicial philosophy, which generated little in the way of law but which supported a strong conservative court agenda for 33 years.“——Booklist

“Not only the story of the justice’s life and career, this book is also a portrait of 20th-century American politics. Recommended for readers interested in the Supreme Court and U.S. politics.” ——Library Journal

“The strength of this book: The author focuses on the man and does not get mired in cases.” ——New York Journal of Books

About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰•A•詹金斯是CQ出版社的总裁兼发行人。他的作品曾在《纽约时报杂志》、《绅士季刊》、《华盛顿月刊》和《美国律师》刊出。他曾四次获得美国法律新闻的最高奖，律师协会的小木槌奖奖状。

John A. Jenkins is president and publisher of CQ Press. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, the Washington Monthly, and the American Lawyer. He is a four-time recipient of the American Bar Association’s Gavel Award Certificate of Merit, the highest award in legal journalism.

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