The Journal of Southern History, August 1st, 2005
Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge. By John M. Ferren. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 577. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2866-1.)
Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr., the son of a Baptist preacher from East Tennessee, rose to become an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This biography illuminates judicial politics at the end of the New Deal and court decisions in which Rutledge took part.
Born in Kentucky and raised in North Carolina and Tennessee, Ru...
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