Denise's review
Gideon's Trumpet
by Anthony Lewis
Denise's review
Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
Denise's review
rating:
I read this because I'm trying to keep my post-law-school, pre-bar-exam brain from turning into gorgeous, laid back mush. It was great. It's very, very readable, with lots of relatively interesting descriptions of the facts leading up to the Gideon v. Wainwright case, and it includes lots of great information about how the inner gears of the Supreme Court turn. Some parts get a little turgid, but it's a book about a legal decision; what do you expect? I kind of wish they'd done a second edition also; this book could really use a reflective afterword. There's an epilogue, but it's pretty dated. Good stuff.
