Nine Scorpions in a Bottle: Great Judges and Cases of the Supreme Court

by Max Lerner

A collection of essays about the Supreme Court and its judges discusses such topics as its role in the government, how the role has changed and its symbolism, and examines specific cases

Genres: Law, History, Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 1994

About the author

Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column. Lerner earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1923. He studied law there, but transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for an M.A. in 1925. He earned a doctorate from the Brookings Institution in 1927.

After completing his education Lerner found employment as both an educator and as a journalist. He began work as an editor, first for the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences from 1927 until 1932, then The Nation from 1936 until 1938 and PM from 1943 until 1948. During these years Lerner taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Wellesley Summer Institute, Harvard University, and Williams College. In 1949 Lerner started writing a column for the New York Post, which he wrote until just before his death in 1992.

Reviews

[Guera25 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lerner sure was a Holmes fanboy. Holmes was an extraordinary jurist, but he was also a eugenicist turd, and thus Lerner's concluding paean to Holmes' eternal judicial purity was hard to stomach.