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Summary: "Justice Robert H. Jackson was one of the Supreme Court's most gifted writers and a longtime intimate advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Professor Casto nicely illuminates their relationship and Jackson's legal and political thought."-David M. O'Brien, author of Justice Robert H. Jackson's Unpublished Opinion in Brown v. Board "Robert Jackson served with distinction as solicitor general, attorney general, and associate justice of the Supreme Court. His concurring opinion in the Youngstown Steel Seizure Case of 1952 remains a landmark. W. R. Casto adeptly explores in detail Jackson's nuanced and evolving understanding of a president's constitutional powers. This is an important book. It not only explains and assesses Jackson's views, it also helps us gain insight on enduring constitutional issues that remain relevant today."-John P. Burke, John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont "William Casto has produced a readable and accessible synthesis of an understudied topic, the relationship between an American president and his chief legal advisor. Despite the extensive scholarly commentary on the careers of Franklin Roosevelt and Robert Jackson, there has hitherto been no sustained analysis of Jackson's role in giving Roosevelt legal advice on a variety of topics between 1938 and 1941, years in which Jackson served as Solicitor General and Attorney General before being appointed by Roosevelt to the Supreme Court. Casto has filled that gap."-G. Edward White, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law and University Professor, University of Virginia School of Law. |
