Simon is an engaging storyteller., James Simon delivers a provocative account of the complicated relationship between two 20th century giants, Dwight Eisenhower and Earl Warren, and their historic impact civil rights and liberties. offer important corrections to such sentimentalism.
Warren reminds us of an era when Supreme Court justices owed their allegiance to the Constitution they interpreted, not the president or political party who nominated them., Many Americans, especially white ones, think of the 1950s with gauzy nostalgia. Warren is a behind-the-public-scenes look at the post-World War II era of our nation when the battle for civil rights was fought in several venues. Simon's parallel study of the lives of two remarkable figures in American history reminds us of a far different time in our nation. Warren, too, is written as intriguinglycomplicated., James F. Quite frankly, I couldn't put it down!, A detailed,fine-grained study.As Simon skillfully demonstrates, Eisenhower was far from inert on thesubject of racial reform. Exploring such fundamental issues as racial segregation and McCarthyism, Simon takes us beyond the scenes in the White House, the Congress, and the Supreme Court to reveal with extraordinary intimacy the conflicts, the compromises, and the sometimes shaped antagonisms that shaped one of the most pivotal periods in American history. Warren, James Simon offers a truly masterful telling of the complex relationship between two of the most influential and compelling figures in mid-twentieth century America. Simon does great justice to an important segment of a critical period in American history., In Eisenhower v. This is a cogently written book, especially given the complexity of many of the issues. A major achievement., The two principals' individuality, as well as their relationship to one another and to their associate justices, is skillfully and intelligently drawn.
Simon's lucidly written, riveting account is an invaluable reminder of what is at stake when our civil rights and liberties are threatened. The lessons of the battle between President Eisenhower, the cautious pragmatist, and Chief Justice Warren, the principled constitutionalist, are as relevant today as they were more than fifty years ago. Simon's important book could not be timelier.
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