Publisher's Synopsis
"Anthony Kennedy's journey from an idyllic youth in 1940s Sacramento to service on the highest courts in America. Anthony Kennedy did not take the usual path to a seat on the Supreme Court. Often, the phrase "constitutional lawyer" brings to mind graduates of fine universities engaged in philosophic discourse as they walk the halls of government. Although Kennedy attended Stanford and the London School of Economics and then Harvard Law School, he made his way as a lawyer with a wide-ranging small-town practice that included criminal and civil trials, advice in forming and managing corporations, estate planning, and tax advice. For him, the law was not just an idea but a reality that touches Americans' lives every day. The nation's "little c" constitution-community, customs, and mores-proved as important as the "big C" Constitution adopted in 1789. Justice Antonin Scalia's one-time quip that the law is what "five Ivy-educated constitutio
