Washington Monthly, October 1st, 1989
The Antagonists This is an absorbing and illuminating account of the intersecting lives of two giants of American law, Felix Frankfurter and Hugo Black. They were together on some of the most important decisions of their era--Brown v. Board of Education, where both were on the right side, and wartime relocation cases, where both were wrong. They split on crucial First Amendment issues during the forties and fifties. On these, Black was on the side of the angels, while Frankfurter committed error after error that will forever blight his otherwise distinguished record.
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