Authors: Anthony Lewis
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Retail, #Nonfiction, #Legal, #History
Gideon's Trumpet (34 page)
Hand, Learned,
The Bill of Rights
, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (1958). Judge Learned Hand’s Holmes Lectures at Harvard, the leading recent expression of skepticism about the benefits of judicial review.
Wechsler, Herbert,
Principles, Politics and Fundamental Law
, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (1961). Among the collection: a follow-up to Judge Hand, less skeptical but still troubled by judicial performance.
Bickel, Alexander M.,
The Least Dangerous Branch: the Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics
, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis (1962). Comments on Professor Wechsler and the role of the Court generally, still on the skeptical side.
Black, Charles L.,
The People and the Court: Judicial Review in a Democracy
, Macmillan, New York (1960). An enthusiastic endorsement of judicial power.
Equal Justice for the Accused:
Report of a Special Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (1959). What is now done for indigent defendants across the country.
Assistance to the Indigent Accused:
A Problem Pamphlet by the Joint Committee on Continuing Legal Education, of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association (1961). A handy collection of legal and political materials on the problem and what to do about it.
Beaney, William M.,
The Right to Counsel in American Courts
, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor (1955). Especially valuable for its history of the issue.
Brownell, Emery A.,
Legal Aid in the United States
, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co., Rochester (1951). Supplement (1961). A survey of prevailing systems.
Fellman, David,
The Defendant’s Rights
, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1958). A concise and accurate statement, before more recent Supreme Court decisions, of all the rights available to criminal defendants—going beyond counsel.
McKay, Robert B.,
An American Constitutional Law Reader
, Oceana Publications, New York (1958). A paperback tracing in concise and readable form the major trends in constitutional decision from the beginning until now. Criminal law fitted into the larger picture.
Note: The cases of
Betts v. Brady
and
Gideon v. Wainwright (Gideon v. Cochran)
appear so frequently that they are not indexed.
Adamson v. California
, 94
Adkins v. du Pont
, 36n.
Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley
Authority
, 21n.
Baker v. Carr
, 220n.
Barron v. Baltimore
, 93
Bartkus v. Illinois
, 47, 92n., 228n.
Brown v. Allen
, 35n., 83n.
Brown v. Board of Education
, 29n.
Brown v. Mississippi
, 97n., 219n.
Burnett v. Coronado Oil & Gas
Co.
, 88n.
Carnley v. Cochran
, 121
Carter v. Carter Coal Co.
, 90n.
Chambers v. Florida
, 162, 230
Chewning v. Cunningham
, 121n.
Commonwealth ex rel. Simon v
.
Maroney
, 142n., 201n.
Crooker v. California
, 136n.
Davis v. Wechsler
, 21n.
Dennis v. United States
, 49n.
Douglas v. California
, 195n.
Draper v. Washington
, 195n.
Durham v. United States
, 54n.
Engel v. Vitale
, 50n.
Erie Railroad v. Tompkins
, 14n.
Everson v. Board of Education
, 87n.
Fay v. Noia
, 195n.
Foster v. Illinois
, 30n., 118n.
Gitlow v. New York
, 95n.
Goldman v. United States
, 87n.
Gray v. Sanders
, 195n.
Green v. United States
, 89n.
Griffin v. Illinois
, 97, 98, 121, 126, 131, 137, 141, 144
Gryger v. Burke
, 119, 128n.
Hamilton v. Alabama
, 118n.
Hudson v. North Carolina
, 120
Irvin v. Dowd
, 219n.
Johnson v. Zerbst
, 114, 116, 198, 202, 232
Kinsella v. Singleton
, 130n.
Knapp v. Schweitzer
, 92n.
Lane v. Brown
, 195n.
Lochner v. New York
, 231n.
Lynumn v. Illinois
, 219n.
Mapp v. Ohio
, 98–9, 124, 142, 144, 150, 152, 189
Marbury v. Madison
, 84
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
, 17–18
McCulloch v. Maryland
, 90
McNabb v. United States
, 232n.
McNeal v. Culver
, 120, 129n.
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v
.
Canada
, 220n.
Moore v. Dempsey
, 96n.
N.A.A.C.P. v. Alabama
, 21n.
N.L.R.B. v. Jones & Laughlin
Co.
, 90n.
Niukkanen v. McAlexander
, 223n.
Palko v. Connecticut
, 95n.
Peters v. Hobby
, 22n.
Pickelsimer v. Wainwright
, 215n.
Plessy v. Ferguson
, 89n.
Poe v. Ullman
, 22n.
Powell v. Alabama
, 110–11, 117, 144, 181, 186, 198, 199, 200, 219, 220, 229, 230
Prudential Insurance Co. v
.
Cheek
, 95n.
Quicksall v. Michigan
, 120n., 181, 200
Reid v. Covert
, 130n.
Rideau v. Louisiana
, 219n.
Robinson v. United States
, 137n.
Rogers v. Missouri Pacific
Railroad
, 43n.
Scott v. Sandford
, 21, 231
Shelley v. Kraemer
, 150n.
Spano v. New York
, 97n.
Thompson v. Louisville
, 20n.
Tileston v. Ullman
, 22n.
Tomkins v. Missouri
, 118n.
Townsend v. Burke
, 119
Truax v. Corrigan
, 166n.
United States v. Butler
, 90n.
Uveges v. Pennsylvania
, 119
Watts v. Indiana
, 97n.
West Virginia Board of
Education v. Barnette
, 85n.
White v. Maryland
, 214n.
Williams v. Kaiser
, 118n.
Wolf v. Colorado
, 96n., 232n.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANTHONY LEWIS is a columnist for the
New York Times
. He was previously its Chief London Correspondent and before that was in the
Times
Washington Bureau, covering the Supreme Court and the Justice Department.
Mr. Lewis was born in 1927 in New York City. After graduating from Harvard in 1948, he spent four years with the Sunday department of the
New York Times
and then became a general assignment reporter for the
Washington Daily News
. While working for the
News
he won a Pulitzer Prize for national correspondence and the Heywood Broun Award in 1955 for a series of stories on the Federal loyalty-security program. He was a Nieman Fellow in 1956–1957. In 1963 he won a second Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Supreme Court. He is the co-author, with the
New York Times
, of
Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution
.
Mr. Lewis makes his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
