Word: courting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 70 years of tradition, a $350,000 advance, and the Watergate investigation behind them, one expected a lot of Woodward and sidekick Scott Armstrong when they tackled the Supreme Court. One expected more than...
...small man, venally self-centered instead of expansive, narrow-minded instead of broad. These are traits endemic to our race, and not sins, not breaches of conduct, not even very surprising. The worst the authors catch Burger doing is bending a few of the unwritten procedural codes of the court to satisfy his slight meglamania. There is a fascinating three-page description of Burger's tour of the Court facilities on his assumption of office...
Woodward and Armstrong's caricature of William O. Douglas is another example. They describe his return to the Court...