Five Chiefs：A Supreme Court Memoir

WhenheresignedlastJune,JusticeStevenswasthethirdlongestservingJusticeinAmericanhistory(1975-2010)--onlyJusticeWilliamO.Douglas,whomStevenssucceeded,andStephenFieldhaveservedontheCourtforalongertime.InFiveChiefs,JusticeStevenscapturestheinnerworkingsoftheSupremeCourtviahispersonalexperienceswiththefiveChiefJustices--FredVinson,EarlWarren,WarrenBurger,WilliamRehnquist,andJohnRoberts--thatheinteractedwith.HereminiscesofbeingalawclerkduringVinson'stenure;apracticinglawyerforWarren;acircuitjudgeandjuniorjusticeforBurger;acontemporarycolleagueofRehnquist;andacolleagueofcurrentChiefJusticeJohnRoberts.Alongtheway,hewilldiscusshisviewsofsomethemostsignificantcasesthathavebeendecidedbytheCourtfromVinson,whobecameChiefJusticein1946whenTrumanwasPresident,toRoberts,whobecameChiefJusticein2005.PackedwithinterestinganecdotesandstoriesabouttheCourt,FiveChiefsisanunprecedentedandhistoricallysignificantlookatthehighestcourtintheUnitedStates.