Preface
Chapter 1. Earl Warren and the People’s Court
Part I. Childhood, Education, and Early Career
Chapter 2. Coming of Age
Chapter 3. The D.A. On the Waterfront
Part II: Finding a National Voice
Chapter 4. The War at Home
Chapter 5. California’s Favorite Son
Part III: Earl Warren on the Bench
Chapter 6. A Day That Will Live in Glory
Chapter 7. All Deliberate Speed
Chapter 8. The Super Chief
Chapter 9. The Warren Court and the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 10. Reforming Criminal Justice
Part IV. Earl Warren Off the Bench
Chapter 11. An Incident in Dallas
Chapter 12. The Warren Commission and the Kennedy Assassination
Part V. Conclusion
Chapter 13. The End of the Warren Court
Chapter 14. The Legacy of Earl Warren
Bibliography
About the Author
Paul Moke is professor of political science at Wilmington College.
Moke argues that Earl Warren was one of the central political
figures of his time. Warren, who had been attorney general and
governor of California, was chief justice from 1953 to 1969; he
participated in the civil rights revolution that benefited African
Americans, the cases that were meant to enforce the rights of
criminally accused persons, and the court-ordered reapportionments
of legislatures based on the one-person, one-vote principle. Moke’s
thesis is easily proven; Warren is considered so influential in
these developments that the period is commonly called the Warren
Era. Moke mines previously plundered archives and contributes some
new material from the 1930s. . . .Moke makes a contribution,
showing how the attorney general who supported the Japanese
exclusion of 1942 developed into the author of Brown v. Board of
Education in 1954 and how the prosecutor who carelessly disregarded
the rights of accused persons in the 1930s grew into the defender
of the Miranda warning. But in 1964, Moke notes, Warren failed to
'speak truth to power' as the chairman of the Warren Commission.
Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and undergraduate
students.
*CHOICE*
The book presents additional insight into the work of the Warren
Commission.
*Wilmington News-Journal*
[An] insightful judicial biography. . . . Moke’s biography provides
an evenhanded appraisal of the Chief Justice’s shortcomings and
misjudgments not only while on the bench but in his public service
prior to and beyond the high court. An equally important
contribution of Moke’s book, possibly of greater value in this
reviewer’s estimation, reminds us how the Supreme Court’s approach
to the law, often guided by its Chief Justice, matters. . .
Hopefully, [the book] will. . . find a home in college and
university holdings as well as public libraries; it deserves to be
read.
*American Review of Politics*
This book presents the details of Warren’s life and career,
including some of his
best known Supreme Court decisions, in an accessible fashion.
Persons without legal
training will be able to get a good sense of Warren’s
contributions. Likewise, it
responds, in a way that other books on Warren have not, to the
‘conservative’
criticism of the Warren Court that has surfaced in the last
decade.
*G. Edward White, University of Virginia School of Law*
A thoroughly researched account of Warren’s extraordinary life that
draws on newly available original sources and provides a
comprehensive portrait of his major contributions to 20th Century
justice in the U.S., both on and off the bench. Moke’s
balanced work identifies Warren’s great virtues and achievements as
well as some critical failures, providing a scholarly perspective
accessible to a wide audience
*Howard Tolley, University of Cincinnati*
Earl Warren and the Struggle for Justice brings vividly to life the
story of America’s most progressive chief justice, in all his
humanity and brilliance. Relying on previously unexplored sources,
Professor Moke traces the roots of Earl Warren’s relentless belief
in the dignity of every person and his determination to ensure that
those who are poor and vulnerable receive a fair shake. This
book is a marvelous reminder of what the Supreme Court can
accomplish when it dedicates itself to making the words engraved
above its entrance—equal justice under law—a reality rather than a
mere slogan.
*Daniel P. Tokaji, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law*
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