Earl Warren/Bibliography

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• Belknap, Michael, The Supreme Court Under Earl Warren, 1953-1969 (2005), 406pp excerpt and text search
• Cray, Ed. Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren (1997), the most comprehensive biography; highly favorable; strong on politics excerpt and text search
• Horwitz, Morton J. The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice (1999) excerpt and text search
• Lewis, Anthony. "Earl Warren" in Leon Friedman and Fred L. Israel, eds. The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions. Volume: 4. (1997) pp 1373-1400; includes all members of the Warren Court. online edition
• Newton, Jim. Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made (2006), solid biography by journalist excerpt and text search
• Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (2001) online edition
• Powe, Lucas A.. The Warren Court and American Politics (2002) excerpt and text search
• Scheiber, Harry N. Earl Warren and the Warren Court: The Legacy in American and Foreign Law (2006)
• Schwartz, Bernard. The Warren Court: A Retrospective (1996) excerpt and text search
• Schwartz, Bernard. "Chief Justice Earl Warren: Super Chief in Action." Journal of Supreme Court History 1998 (1): 112-132
• Tushnet, Mark. The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective (1996) excerpt and text search
• White, G. Edward. Earl Warren (1982), by leading scholar

Primary Sources

• Time Magazine. "The Chief," Time Nov. 17, 1967
• Warren, Earl. The Memoirs of Earl Warren (1977), goes only to 1954
• Warren, Earl. The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren, ed. by Henry M. Christman; (1959), speeches and decisions, 1946-1958 online edition.
• Rawls, James J. "The Earl Warren Oral History Project: an Appraisal." Pacific Historical Review 1987 56(1): 87-97. Begun during the 1960s by the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, the collection includes more than 50 volumes of interviews recorded and transcribed during 1971-81, totaling about 12,000 pages.