About the Author

Dennis J. Hutchinson is William Rainey Harper Professor in the College and senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White, a New York Times Notable Book. David J. Garrow is Presidential Distinguished Professor at the Emory University School of Law and the author of several books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bearing the Cross.

Reviews

"This book has novelistic force, like One L or The Paper Chase. It's about a weird quartet consisting of the author, who is a nice young man, a bit of the obtuse narrator; his boss, McReynolds, a kind of legal Bluebeard; and the two Black servants, who call McReynolds (behind his back of course) 'Pussywillow.' This is literature, rather than just history - the charm is in the telling." - Judge Richard Posner